Brush fire and evacuation near Ox Creek road, Weaverville NC
Fire & ArsonFirefighters responded to a brush fire near Ox Creek Road and Blue Ridge Parkway. Evacuations were conducted, and crews managed fire suppression, staging, and traffic control in the area.
Audio|Source: Buncombe County Fire and EMS
03:50
Transcript:
00:00
Can you have a brush truck?
00:02
Check 4, 6,
00:03
7,
00:04
Ox Creek
00:05
Expecting this residence or we check it for fire conditions?
00:17
Check and make sure it's good and prepped.
00:21
The map is just showing it under construction.
00:26
I don't know how upstate this is.
00:29
I understand.
00:35
1401 comms.
00:41
We send out some kind of emergency alerts for a ton of hikers in here in the parkway.
00:45
I don't know if it reaches out or not to just this area.
00:49
I don't know how that works.
00:51
Check and Brad and try to get people to get off the parkway.
00:59
Also, there's a park rinker controlling traffic on the other than oxygen and come on the highway.
01:08
Okay.
01:13
Well, it's a truck at a station.
01:18
We'll ask you, introduce, Agent, truck 11, 10,
01:22
4.
01:25
Box, from truck 20.
01:29
Stand by.
01:31
Jim, you at the main.
01:39
Yes, sir.
01:42
I'll be back here a minute.
01:44
I'm just going up here to the old Solomon turn around.
01:50
Okay.
01:55
Good, I'm three.
01:58
You are chipped in either one, if it's not already been done, able to grab the command bus and take it to meet up at the staging area at the church.
02:10
Tips and wrap to pick it up.
02:13
Thank you, Foxy Coffee.
02:18
Can you repeat? I was talking to the page.
02:24
Command bus and bring it down.
02:27
I understand.
02:28
We'll be at near Ox Creek.
02:32
Copy near Ox Creek.
02:33
I'll text it to him.
02:35
It doesn't make it easier on top of the drone up, but I've got a feeling the way the winds are up.
02:43
Higher probably won't fare so well.
02:50
Three on Pat, on two.
02:57
122 is out of the station.
03:07
1539, 214. Go ahead.
03:12
Do you want them off the parkway completely or is there a specific area of the parkway you want hydrists to leave?
03:24
That fire is going to run towards Rattlesnake Lodge.
03:32
Truck 20.
03:36
Creek would be correct.
03:41
I'm not sure who's that easy was.
03:46
Struck 20. We could use your A.C.V.
03:48
down here. Sorry about that.
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Location mentioned:
Near Ox Crk Rd, Weaverville, NC 28787
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