Fire spreads to trees near pallets in durham, Durham NC
Fire & ArsonFirefighters respond to a secondary fire burning in trees near many pallets on Stokes St in Durham. They coordinate to access the fire by moving pallets with equipment and breaking through a fence to extinguish it and prevent spread. The fire likely started from an initial blaze linked to previous issues with unhoused individuals in the area.
Audio|Source: Durham City Fire
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Transcript:
00:00
Can you see from the truck the secondary fire that's burning now in the trees? We're about to start lobbing some water on it, but I think we'll have to reach it from your truck.
00:09
Yeah,
00:10
I could see it. Engine 3 from Engine 1 driver.
00:11
Go for inch 3.
00:12
Do you need me to hit it?
00:14
I'll access it from where you're at.
00:15
Engine 1 driver, if you can hit it, hit it, we'll shut down our line.
00:21
Come right here from engine 1.
00:27
Go ahead.
00:28
The site here has a bobcat.
00:30
We're going to move our hose out of the way and let them get in here and kind of break up all these pallets with that bobcat.
00:36
Copy. Have you laid eyes on the secondary fire? Can you tell how that started by chance?
00:41
Got over there yet.
00:42
I imagine it's from this initial fire here.
00:45
They've had issues back here before with homeless people,
00:48
unhoused individuals.
00:49
That's how it started before when it got up into the trailer that had paper reels in it.
00:54
Yeah, Temple.
00:55
Engine 3 from Engine 1 driver.
00:57
Are you all able to get to it or are we going to need to get to it from in here? It's going to be going to have to get to it from your side.
01:10
There's no access from the other side.
01:12
Okay, if there's any way we can get to it from over there, cutting trees, whatever is going to be better.
01:17
You saw all these pallets that we got?
01:19
Yeah, simple.
01:20
I'm looking at seeing if we can get at it from Ramser or Stokes.
01:24
Command from Engine 3.
01:27
Command from Engine 3.
01:28
Mayn't go ahead.
01:29
Secondary fire back in the trees to fully get at it and overhaul it.
01:34
You're going to have to either go through the fence or through the pallets.
01:38
See if we can get some of these bobcats and lose.
01:40
We'll least make a pass by the there.
01:41
Engine 3 from Latitude.
01:43
Alright man, we can make through the pallets just a little ways.
01:45
Is there just one part of fence we need to get at?
01:46
Yeah, we could pull about five fence boards and be at it.
01:50
Alright, let's go with the fence lad.
01:52
That's gonna be way easier. Our engine 3 is going to be making access through the fence and working on getting a lot of stretch to it off engine 1.
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Location mentioned:
Stokes St, Durham, NC 27701
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