Brush fire near Perry Creek and Andiron Drive, Wake County NC
Fire & ArsonFirefighters are working to extinguish a brush fire near Perry Creek Road and Andiron Drive in North Carolina. They are assessing terrain and access points for equipment and using backpack sprayers loaded from a mini pumper to control remaining smoldering areas. Raking and dirt covering have reduced the intensity of the fire.
Audio|Source: Wake County Fire
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Transcript:
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Yeah, I don't know,
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what the plan is yet.
00:05
But at Perry Creek Road and Andiron Drive, I mean, it's a lot smoother terrain.
00:13
As far as hoofing it and walking.
00:15
I don't know what the plan is to bring in a line or not, but it would probably be a little bit safer of the bed.
00:24
It might be a little bit longer to walk, but like I said, it's...
00:28
It's quiet and there's not as many divvits and stuff when we're walking through it.
00:39
All right, copy.
00:40
I'm here from Captain Laxon just a minute too to go along with what you just said.
00:46
I was just talking to Cavaskini, you know, about the farstreet hose.
00:50
We're just trying to see how far the different options here, how far we get that mini pumper to stop at a safe spot and then any hose off of that from there.
01:04
Chief, I just walked through woods to a retaining pond.
01:07
It was a hundred steps through the retaining pond and you had to walk around the pond and the, uh,
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there's a retaining wall that's probably 15 foot high with a fence on top of that.
01:19
So I don't know if going this route is going to be feasible.
01:23
And there's also water you have to walk through too in a swampy area.
01:31
Okay,
01:32
so Captain Lamar, are you saying you think the author Andron might be the spot where they can get in a little further,
01:40
better terrain than what we're faced with here?
01:46
Getting in with the minipomper would be a no-go, but if we have to start pulling a whole bunch of
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forksion and it would probably be a little bit safer as far as walking.
01:59
Because it's hard ground and it's flat.
02:02
There is one embankment initially,
02:05
but most of it's flat as you head towards the fire.
02:14
All right, copy.
02:15
Once you all get to a point where you can just give me a point,
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what street where you're, you know, your vantage point on what street we can get, and Andrew and a mini pump or two to at least try and pull from there.
02:42
8, Dawson, 27.
02:44
How far down this trail can you access with the mini pumper safely? Is it off of the trail where there's fire is located?
02:59
If you walk about 40-50 steps in front of the engine, you have to go off the trail at that point.
03:09
Unless you can look and see if the trail comes back around,
03:13
it's 180 steps from the way you lead the trail to the actual site.
03:24
Mini Pumper 208, it's roughly 200 feet before the trail turns left away from where the fire is.
03:34
So you could drive down the trail,
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but you're going to be 180 steps out.
03:41
Unless the trail keeps coming around,
03:44
cuts back. It looks like it turns to the left, though.
03:51
Looking at it on the aerial shows it,
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you come to a T and you go back north on the trail.
04:04
Yeah, and I'm going to send you my location.
04:07
You have your phone?
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Yeah,
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see if you can send what three words if it'll do that or drop me appendage.
04:19
I'm going to send it to you.
04:26
Okay,
04:30
okay. Is those uh Ballards down?
04:36
Yes.
04:41
Okay, I got you.
04:47
You come back, this is just gonna keep going to keep going left.
04:57
It doesn't straighten out that way.
05:06
Command from FireTack.
05:07
We've got a lot of this knocked down.
05:11
They've been raking a lot, putting dirt on it stuff.
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We don't have a ton of stuff smoldering.
05:16
We've got those backpack sprayers on the mini pumper.
05:21
If we could fill up several of those and maybe refill these, I think we might be able to just bounce it down good enough without having to drag any line out here.
05:33
Yeah, that sounds like a good plan for me with the bladder packs they got on the mini-pumper,
05:39
and this being fired, it was pretty well mostly extinguished from just a can.
05:46
That sounds like a good plan to me.
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Can tell those packs up at an end of 28.
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Location mentioned:
Andiron Ln, North Carolina 27614
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