Fire spreads across cornfields near Dollar General, Fauquier County VA
WildfireFire crews responded to a field fire near Dollar General on Calvert Road in Fauquier County, Virginia. Strong winds caused the fire to spread across cornfields. Multiple brush trucks and tankers were deployed to control the blaze and prevent it from spreading to nearby crops.
Audio|Source: Fauquier County Sheriff and Fire, Warrenton Police
06:10
Transcript:
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Near Dollar General on Calvert Road.
00:04
Ms. Chief Ten,
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Ms. Chief Ten.
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This wind with it is, you may want to go ahead and start an additional finger.
00:18
I just check.
00:22
Four feet on.
00:28
Other fields.
00:33
Okay.
00:34
I'll hear from command.
00:35
Start one additional tanker.
00:37
Starting additional tanker, 14-0-1.
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Wagon 701. Wagon 7.
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Go ahead. Wagon 7.
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We're trying to get a line cut.
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It's on the edge of the field.
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It's starting to push towards this, towards the roadside,
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away from the wood line.
00:56
But it is coming out of that corner, so we're ready to hopping the next.
01:04
Okay.
01:05
We have Brush 505 and Brush 515, and it'll be out just a minute.
01:13
Oh, we're going to need more than these three brush row?
01:20
Man from Chief Penn, yes, starting additional brush off.
01:24
It's not the second, so...
01:30
All right, good sentence, man, I recommend those two more.
01:36
Okay,
01:37
Bob here from a man.
01:38
The lens is picking up fire again, start two additional brush up.
01:46
And logger, we're going to react to that, we're going to be responding again.
01:53
Derek, 24203.
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Lock here to attack 13.
02:02
Go ahead.
02:05
Interestation unstaffed.
02:08
That's primitive.
02:10
Correct.
02:16
Man from Cheekton.
02:21
Go ahead, Cheekton.
02:22
I'm not sure if you free up in the airman power, he's been hollow.
02:28
Start to run towards the road towards the pond.
02:34
Okay, 737-1-5-5-9-8-8-4-7-11-8-4-7-11-8-4-7-4-7-1-8-4-7-4-8-4-8-4-4-4-4-4-4-4.
02:53
Okay,
02:59
RR7 and come on back to this location by the phone.
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5 driver from the name.
03:08
Did you go ahead.
03:12
Okay, right now there's a pond between all of the fire in the house of the driveway that you sit in.
03:17
Keep an eye on the field, the cornfield in front of the house, make sure the November is starting to hang up over there, okay?
03:25
That's what I mean?
03:29
What's our full with two?
03:35
Okay, I'm with two or T-O-6.
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Wagon,
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Savage, man.
03:44
Do you have a brush truck available to come over to where the original location was where we met brush having that on team?
03:52
I don't believe so.
03:53
The three that are on the scene right now are operating at the head of the fire.
04:01
Okay, why you're doing this cruise trying to make a line before it hops into this next section of corn chalks that the combine is working off?
04:09
We're going to be off on the,
04:10
oh, it looks like the right side.
04:16
Okay,
04:20
man, I'm going to keep in.
04:24
Go ahead, Chief Dan.
04:28
Do you want to go ahead and set up your flanks and I can advise using Pond as fire taxi?
04:38
We know the 10 South Fifth Street, in reference to the previous down-prime report.
04:45
And then there's going to be the right flank.
04:48
Right now you have Brush 10 operating on your side along with Brush 505,
04:54
and I have Brush 7 near me on the left flank.
05:00
Gregson, they're on the right flank, I'm sorry.
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Gee, thanks for Rack.
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left and knocked down.
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I want to take a walk there on this other field, make sure it didn't jump.
05:20
Okay.
05:25
Flag and 7 from command.
05:27
Are you, do you need a brush truck over there immediately or can it wait until we get another one on scene?
05:35
We should be okay as long as the wind didn't change direction on us.
05:38
I said, we're just trying to keep it from jumping the next section of corn stalks.
05:48
Okay,
05:49
sir.
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Go ahead, Chief Ten.
05:56
Okay. Okay.
05:58
For us then,
05:59
working by himself.
06:00
I'm taking a walk across from the pond area, making sure he didn't jump.
06:09
Medic, she's ready.
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