Vehicle fire under bridge closes highway 74 in North Carolina, Cleveland County NC


A passenger vehicle and a commercial vehicle caught fire under a bridge near Mortonboro in North Carolina. The fire spread from the engine to the passenger area. Emergency crews arrived and closed Highway 74 to manage the situation and control traffic.
Audio|Source: Cleveland County Fire, EMS, State and local police departments
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Transcript:
00:00
We have a passenger vehicle, commercial vehicle.
00:02
We'll be a passenger. It'll be a key of hand.
00:04
Copy. We'll be to you momentarily.
00:05
Yeah, well, the engine department is fully involved right now spreading into the passenger department.
00:11
Copy. 361, Cleveland.
00:13
361.
00:14
You show me on scene, Staffordshire Fire Command.
00:17
It's going to be under the bridge to Mortonboro, not Ellenborough.
00:20
If you'll get that deputy, it's on 74 just to shut the road down for me.
00:24
Tim. West Sexton Boulevard.
00:25
10.4. We just got one of the firemen on the scene.
00:27
Mayor requesting assistance if you can shut the 74 down right there.
00:32
24, I'm 23.
00:33
104. 104.
00:34
104. 10.30, 3630.
00:36
Ride it on the same.
00:37
363. 363.
00:38
Can you advise your firemen that I'm going to loop around and shut 74 down?
00:42
104. 65,
00:43
what lane is it in? Can be in the last by lane? I do 104.
00:51
C111, moving with 59.
00:53
C1-1-1-11.
00:54
35 County, you can show us out the patient's residence.
00:56
35, 10, 4.
00:57
34 is out of creeping plans?
00:58
34, 10, 4.
00:59
Go ahead.
01:00
Probably 10, 6.
01:01
Is it a CLEZE. Okay, I'm sorry, let's know with 365, 64 is on the scene.
01:05
Counterimetic 27, Trailer Response, Diabetics, 608, East King Street.
01:10
Counterteametic, Charlie 7, Charler Response, Diabetic, 608, East King Street, Cross Streets of York Road and Hendrick Street, Dollar Tree.
01:19
27, copy, show us in route.
01:21
7, 10, 4.
01:22
Turn about a gate.
01:23
Go ahead. You stand by and came down.
01:25
Yeah, well. 774, shall we?
01:26
Go ahead.
01:27
Spectable order inside.
01:28
It was actually now. Tonight. See and fold.
01:30
If we can go ahead and get four over, see if we can shift you over and get one lane of traffic open.
01:36
Fire's going to be pretty much contained at this point.
01:38
We'll just let this lane go.
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US-74, North Carolina
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