Brush fire spreads near Pork and Bean Store in Tennessee, Cocke County TN
WildfireFire crews responded to a brush fire spreading on a mountainside near the Pork and Bean Store on Old 15th Road in Cocke County, Tennessee. The fire covered about one to two acres. Multiple fire departments, including Del Rio and Grassy Fork, were en route to contain the fire. The fire was spreading sideways between two roads, with several unoccupied structures and power lines near but at a safe distance from the flames.
Audio|Source: Cocke County Sheriff, Fire, and EMS, Newport Police and Fire
07:47
Transcript:
00:00
28, we have confirmed structure fire not quite sure how far it goes up the mountain.
00:06
It is burning from the road all the way up.
00:11
As far as I can see.
00:15
Central car 17.
00:16
You'll me go ahead and get calls being Del Rio on the county en route.
00:21
Car 17 to 29, did you advise? Structure fire, confirm.
00:28
Negative, confirmed, brush fire.
00:31
The whole side of the mountain.
00:34
Tantful.
00:35
104 Central, fresh fire, non-struck.
00:39
Okay, 104, you need some additional resources.
00:44
29 to Central.
00:46
Go on ahead and send Oreo this way, because I'm pretty sure we're in their district.
00:50
It's right here near the pork and bean store.
00:54
Okay, 104, we'll get in the room now.
00:58
Zincolvase, if they're coming out of 15s, we're talking to the road.
01:09
Can you repeat that, Central?
01:12
Can they access it from the 15th? They need to come in a different way?
01:19
104 Central.
01:20
If Del Rio will come in from their side on the old 15th and tell them go past the pork and bean store, it's right there.
01:29
Temporal, get them in real.
01:35
I don't know.
01:47
Central Delaware Fire.
01:49
It's easy to be en route past the forking baiting store on the Old 15th Road.
01:54
Grassy forks responding to a brush fire up there.
01:57
It's almost into your area.
02:00
You'll see it once you get there.
02:02
Last address is near 15th Road.
02:14
29, I'm coming through.
02:15
Coggins Road right now, I'll be Tee in just a moment.
02:19
104 Lewis, use caution there is a maroon colored Nissan truck coming out that way.
02:24
We're going up a little size if we can cut it off at the top.
02:31
104.
02:35
29, how many acres you reckon?
02:44
Chief, as of right now, as far as visually, what I can see,
02:48
acre,
02:49
maybe two at the most.
02:54
Thank you, ma'am.
03:00
Chief 17. 17.
03:02
17.
03:05
Go ahead.
03:07
You want two, three, your wildline, 17.
03:14
Windland.
03:17
Copy.
03:19
Car 17, did you pull anything off of it tonight that I need to put back on it?
03:29
Just a chainsaw, you'll see sitting there in front of the truck.
03:36
10.4, it'll be 10 and I.
03:40
10409 is the station getting the truck ready.
03:52
1049 is the station getting the truck ready.
04:12
Go.
04:15
1776 on scene.
04:20
1601 copies on the route here just a few minutes.
04:30
76, if you can stay on that end with Wildland and help him, we're up here trying to see what we got at the top.
04:39
I can have a war down on the road right now.
04:46
29 to central.
04:48
I'm establishing command.
04:51
221.
04:59
Car 17 to 1777, just follow Wildland 17 from Station 2 up when you guys come.
05:13
Copy that.
05:31
2026.
05:33
29 to Wildland.
05:39
If you don't care, hear your siren real quick so we can try and sound out location from where we're at.
05:54
I'm sorry.
06:02
29, this is car 17.
06:04
Is it before or after the poor convenience store?
06:09
Car 17 on our side, it will be before you get to the pork and bean store.
06:14
Table.
06:17
29 to central, be advised, there is two roads, one above the fire, one below the fire.
06:24
The only way it can really travel is sideways.
06:30
Sure.
06:39
Chief 17, if you didn't copy, thermal drones in round.
06:49
O3, did you set him a good pin?
06:53
He's going to follow you guys from station two up.
07:07
1729 to Chief 17.
07:12
Go ahead.
07:16
Chief, we're not able to spot it from the road up top, but the advisor is several structures up here with no one living in them.
07:25
But there is also power lines that run down the hill.
07:32
Far away of the structures from the fire.
07:41
Chief, they're in a really good safe distance and there is a dirt road separating them.
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Old 15th Rd, Tennessee
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