Grass fire contained near I-70 Adams off-ramp, Topeka KS

Wildfire

Reported: 10/21/2025 12:40 PM

I-70, Topeka, KS

Fire crews responded to and contained a grass fire near I-70 Adams off-ramp in Topeka, Kansas. The fire was in a field near the highway. Firefighters also used equipment such as a combine and disking operations to help control the fire.

Audio|Source: Topeka and Shawnee County Fire Departments

04:22

Transcript:

00:00

I-70 woke down to Adams off-ramp for a possible grassfire engine six.

00:06

The following one response.

00:08

Selti's I-Civity worked down to Adams off-ramp for a possible grass fire. We're going off-5, 10-out 4244040.

00:23

Command Street Dispatch.

00:26

Go ahead.

00:29

Hey, would you be able to get a hold of BNS for UP, whoever runs this line, each up a line down please? We have five touch going across it.

00:56

Section 6.

01:00

Strike 33, Auburn, can I hand on, ops 2.

01:12

There's a spot here, Alvin, can I hand on,

01:19

ops 2.

01:21

There's a spot at.

01:24

Come down the road and you'll find them.

01:31

All right.

01:33

You can do.

01:40

It's unfortunate like you don't see all that you know.

01:57

Go ahead.

02:00

Yeah, we got engine 5 on this call. I think you guys can... Let's continue to go too for now, but I think she's going to run it hot.

02:06

I did get rid of this there.

02:08

Oh.

02:28

Engine 2-2, engine 5, or engine 6.

02:45

Agent 6th.

02:47

I'm on that grass fire now.

02:53

Thank you, engine 6. You can go ahead and cancel.

03:01

Engine 6 copies.

03:08

They're driving out into the field.

03:14

Fire.

03:16

Technical user line.

03:21

Call by putting water on it for the smoke coming out of the back of it.

03:30

What is the combine located at from the field?

03:40

In the northwest corner,

03:42

let's like JD got a disk. He's going to start a disk on the west end.

03:48

On the west end.

03:56

We'll be back on the...

03:59

We're going to... We're going to stop. We are working on ComLap. We're going to have Ruston. Okay.

04:17

We are working on ComLapy right now. We're going to have Rustin on the acre of Bluefield going right now.

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