Firefighters combat structure and brush fires on Mt Zion Rd, Ferguson NC
Fire & ArsonFirefighters responded to a structure fire and a brush fire near Mount Zion Road and Shulls Mill Road. They faced heavy fire activity and requested additional resources including hand crews and brush trucks to contain the fires. Access was difficult with rough logging roads, and efforts were made to cut off the fire from the top and reposition resources to control the spread. The fires pushed through thick brush and debris, requiring careful coordination.
Audio|Source: Watauga County Fire, EMS and Rescue, Boone and Blowing Rock Fire
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Transcript:
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Kataga, Dickap Fire, Wilkes County requesting assistance, reference or structure fire, near Mount Zion Rd,
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near Mount Zion Rd.
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It'll be a real little tight up in here for you as well.
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We're going to go ahead and start deploying a handline, get some blowers on it.
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Go ahead.
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Fire also out, that's building.
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Oh,
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sure. You're going to have to repeat.
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Do you want us to come up Rockledge or where do you want us to be?
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There are a gentleman down there with a four-wheeler that'll wave you in.
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The logging road is real rough.
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They manage to go on up past to cut it off on the top.
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I'm down here at the bottom of it.
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Okay, we're going to go on up above.
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Anywhere I can get above it with the truck.
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Yeah, if you take that first real sharp left turn, there's a gentleman on a four-wheeler, he'll lead you up here thanks to pass Rockledge.
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It's right here in this gravel turnoff.
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Me and Eli's going to jump on it and try to get a stop on it.
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We're going to turn around and head back there.
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We couldn't make the turn.
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Standing, what about resources?
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Chief, right now looks like we've got two separate ones right now going up the left and the right flank.
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If you want to, let's go ahead and try to get us a...
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A couple hand crews and then maybe a type six as well just a pickup truck on it.
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2421 to talk.
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Yeah.
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2421 guy.
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Get, Tim, four, people would go ahead and have close fire in the route to this location.
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A gentleman, wait, flip, a hand crew, and a top seat, on the pole was down.
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Yes, ma'am, and a top fixed brush fit.
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Hit it this way, please.
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One with Taga.
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21, go ahead.
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Yes, ma'am.
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Move all traffic and everything over to Fosco.
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And if you would, give me a radio check when you're over on it.
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Go ahead.
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Radio set.
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104-1,000. Loud clear.
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Temples.
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22 and round.
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Trane it on POSCA.
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Foxco Fire requesting a tight-fit brush truck, repeating a tight-fit brush truck to near Shulls Mill Rd, near Shulls Mill Rd, for an outside fire brush fire.
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Our green power knowledge is.
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2426, right now all we need is some manpower.
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Go ahead. We'll be sweeping over the balcony.
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For the hill, we're just,
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uh, we're nowhere close to the bottom.
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We're here.
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All right, ten, four, find you a spot.
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There's another road, the homeowner just advised him.
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It's the road right up past, it's a cemetery road.
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22 to 23.
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Go ahead, 22.
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I'm headed to Station 1.
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You need anything out of there?
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At this time, if not, we'll go ahead and blow a tanker up this way, her tender, excuse me.
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Okay.
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One to 23.
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No ahead, Frank.
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I'm going to get back out of here and go back to the up there where the cemetery is there.
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Two and four.
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I believe that's what we're going to work on as well as soon as you get back out of here.
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Our vantage point is no good as well.
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It moves away too much on the left and right front.
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They went on Pusca.
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Go ahead, Shane.
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I'll be ready by Sounders where you name.
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Shane, we're fixing the reposition, and if you come home around where a rock clip is on around the curb, you'll see us from going up towards a cemetery.
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We're going to try to get ahead of this thing.
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You won't follow the phone up in here.
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Go ahead.
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Okay. Okay.
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Okay.
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...to 52 on POSCub.
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Go ahead, 23.
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Go ahead, 23.
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Eli, pushing too much on that left plank.
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Let's go ahead and move 09 out of the way.
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Let's reposition up with O1 the engine.
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I'm walking up at this time.
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Ten-four, sir.
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I'll get O'9 moved.
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It is pushing left into this Laurel thicket now and it's moving quick.
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Yeah, ten-four.
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Got real heavy fire pushing on the right flank as well.
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And we do have a lot of down debris.
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We heard a chance, okay.
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Near Mt Zion Rd, Ferguson, NC 28624
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