Multiple small grass fires cause smoke and low visibility, Blair OK
WildfireMultiple small grass fires occurred along Highway 283 near Blair, Oklahoma, causing heavy smoke and very low visibility. Fire departments from different stations were dispatched to control the fires, and police helped manage traffic to ensure safety.
Audio|Source: Jackson County Police, Fire, and EMS
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Transcript:
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Central Dispatch out, this fire department, station 1 and 2.
00:03
Can I get you en route to standby?
00:14
Copy that Station 1, stand by.
00:21
Station 1,
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can I get out this fire from station 1 and 2, across from the Heritage Park Theater for a grass fire?
00:29
Central dispatched out of the park from station 1 and 2.
00:31
Can I get you en route to across from the Heritage Park Theater for a grass fire?
00:37
Central dispatched out of the fire from station 1 and 2.
00:39
Can I get your route to across the Heritage Park Theater for a grass fire?
01:02
Central copies, thank you.
01:07
Station 2,
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36 will be en route.
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Station 2 copies, station 1.
01:16
Central copies. The central copies.
01:23
Drugs, this day, Judge, County.
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15, go ahead.
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I'll pay you 10908.
01:37
Coffee.
01:42
Station 1, go ahead.
01:45
This is just a small grass fire on the east side of the highway.
01:50
This is one little one hole fire.
01:52
It's a pretty quick small on the east side of the highway.
02:12
Yeah, copy that.
02:14
It is a ball grass fire side of the highway with the one telephone on fire.
02:22
...in route to the grass fire.
02:35
...in route to the grass fire.
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36 o'clock.
03:03
Central dispatch to Friendship Fire Department, can I get you en route to Highway 283 and County Road 161 for grass fires along the highway? Central dispatch to Friendship Fire.
03:17
Can I get you en route to County Road 161 along 283 for grass fires along the highway?
03:25
Central dispatch to Friendship Fire.
03:27
Can I get you en route to 161 and 283 for...
03:31
grass fires along the highway.
03:34
First stage out, 1257.
03:37
Play the office.
03:40
Okay.
03:47
So, Jackson, nine.
03:53
PD reports multiple fires from the airport all the way up to Blair in the ditch.
04:12
Central dispatch is glare fire.
04:15
Can I get you en route to 283 starting in your fire district for small fires along the highway?
04:25
Central best batch to flare fire.
04:28
Can I get you en route to 283?
04:32
Starting in your fire district,
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due to small fires being started,
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it'll be the eighth side of 283, central the fetched to Blair fires, the eighth side of 283 for small fires that have been started along the side of the highway.
04:50
First stage out 1258.
05:07
Negative, we didn't copy anything you said.
05:36
6 to 37. We are across from Applebee starting on the fire now.
05:41
If you want to go to the north of us as a movie theater and start on some of that.
05:49
Be that.
06:00
Jackson County M1, Central Dispatch, showmen route to those fires and be advised, just called the phone with District 1, and they're from just north to town to the airport, and we're going to need a lot of traffic control.
06:13
There's zero visibility.
06:29
The central, have you notified Martha or Blair?
06:35
Affirmative, Blair's on page towel.
06:41
6-1-2 Units 37.
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Are you needing traffic control?
07:01
Yeah,
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that'd be good.
07:04
We've got smoke everywhere going across the road, looks like.
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Blair, OK 73526
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