Fire crews fight wildfire near Beach Road in Hawaii, Hawaii County HI
WildfireFirefighters and helicopters are actively fighting a wildfire near Polko Road and Beach Road in Hawaii. Smoke and spot fires are visible as the fire spreads uphill and westward. Water supplies are being used and coordinated efforts focus on stopping the fire's forward progress.
Audio|Source: Hawaii County Public Safety - Hamakua/North Hilo
03:38
Transcript:
00:00
Rush 515, we've got the end of Polko Road, Beach Road, pure smoking, no flames.
00:05
Advice the each we needed.
00:06
Rush before you, Bobby.
00:07
NPS, Captain, 533.
00:09
One, Topper 2 from Captain 17.
00:11
Focus your efforts on hitting the Molkomo's portion of the squat fires, preventing it from running uphill.
00:17
Good, copy, Chopper 1, Chopper 2.
00:19
Doing what we can with this plume, it's right in our face.
00:22
So we're taking it slow in its tight.
00:23
Copy. Chopper 1, Chopper 2, what does the reservoirs look like currently? Do we need a frost on operation set up? Negative.
00:30
The amount of buck, I mean, the amount of water we're taking off of these, it's not much.
00:36
Things aren't going down at all.
00:38
Copy. Copy. NPSCAPN-533.
00:39
Thank you for 533.
00:41
Thank you. Welcome for the lower fan here.
00:48
I got a lot of active flanking fire, open edge.
00:52
Was there an engine that could support us? We got about 2,500 feet of trunk line we could deploy here if we had an engine.
01:01
Where's your location again?
01:02
Sir? Kind of to the north where we came in on the road, right, where the road hits the Black's Edge.
01:07
Copy, I'll try to get something on there.
01:09
Okay, thank you.
01:10
I'll have somebody out there to tie in with them.
01:11
And this would be kind of working out to the west.
01:15
It's actually, uh, yeah, the south side of the fire, excuse me, working to the west.
01:19
We don't have tanker now and head down the road.
01:21
If you can flag them down on the way to show you where your location's at.
01:24
Okay, I copy, thank you.
01:26
Uh, be advised the tanker currently has approximately 300 gallons.
01:29
After giving you water, it's going to need to fill back up.
01:31
Okay, I copy 300 gallons, thank you.
01:33
Anyway. Um, can you put you back on the D-check to the lookout, please? Stand for.
01:36
I'm Captain 17.
01:38
I'm Captain 17. I'm going to have Tanker 9 Bravo staged in this area on the top.
01:43
Can you make your way up? The top water off.
01:45
Number two and Black Hawk from Captain 17.
01:50
You focus your efforts on the westmost head of the fire, the mouth of the side of the spot fires, try to stop its forward progress.
01:59
Great. Chopper 1 from Captain 17.
02:02
Can you focus your efforts on the spot fires northwest?
02:05
Good copy for Chopper 2 and Blackhawk will focus on the west both side and then Chopper 1, repeat for that? Chopin, maintain your stream assignment on the north-n northwest area spot fires.
02:23
Chapa 1, north-northwest, and then we'll go more on the Malka side from spreading more malco for chopper 2 and a blackhop.
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