Wildfire burns eucalyptus and state forest areas in Hawaii, Laupahoehoe HI
WildfireAn active wildfire is burning in eucalyptus and state forest areas near Hamakua, Laupahoehoe in Hawaii. Access to the fire is difficult, requiring dozers and air support. Road closures are being requested to allow bucket drops to contain the fire. Fire crews are working with ranchers and volunteers to create access and manage the fire.
Audio|Source: Hawaii County Public Safety - Hamakua/North Hilo
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Transcript:
00:00
Steel truck, you're on Nealale-Holmsted Road on the second floor.
00:03
Roger, that. Good copy, thank you.
00:05
Saldian one from Captain 17.
00:06
Hi, boy.
00:07
Spoke to the ranchers up here.
00:08
They have three machines coming up, D6 and two 150s.
00:12
One copy.
00:13
Do you think they're going to be able to actually cut access to get to the fire from where you guys are?
00:18
The ranch says they don't know, but they trespassed them anyway to see if they could assist.
00:22
They weren't able to access a fire.
00:24
It is in the trees at the moment.
00:27
Still trying to figure out the way to access the main body.
00:29
Okay, one copy, thank you.
00:30
Central 305.
00:31
So confirm with dispatch the one on the highway the personnel has already cleared.
00:37
They're needing assistance with the one on Kiana Kolo.
00:40
They're needing to shut down Old Mamalawa to do bucket drops.
00:44
10 4. 10-4[1].
00:47
One area is that of Kianakolu? Is that upper, Wampokoi area?
00:52
Looks like it's clotting closer to Hegel side of the boundary, more Seoul, and North Heel.
00:59
Access might be only available through South of the Hollow.
01:02
Can I check with him? Ten more.
01:03
Copy.
01:04
Do you just a copy. Ten more.
01:05
Telling one fire control.
01:06
Okay, one's not anymore. ECTD is asking if...
01:09
The old mama whole highway to utilize the bucket drops, is that access for this location via South Kohala?
01:17
It should be back, the location of that frog pond should be across the old fellowship church okay so going on going in from the helo side.
01:29
Into Kala about quarter mile down on an old mom of the wha.
01:34
Control coffee.
01:35
If I can throw battalion one also, can you dispatch fuel truck 14 to the Kala road brush fire?
01:41
Control copy.
01:42
Full truck 14 for BC Correspondent with all units to cut out of brush fire full truck 14 per VC response to the colorbrush fire time is 3850.
01:58
If you want a chopper two? No more The host active part of the fire is the head on the direct east side.
02:05
It looks like, again, it's just getting out of the eucalyptus trees into, I think it's state forested the cause there.
02:11
Munker side is burning pretty good, but the bottom, Mackay side is fouldering.
02:16
It looks like it's kind of cut itself off.
02:18
Fulltrak 14 for BC.
02:20
Correspond to all units to cut out of brush fire.
02:23
Full truck 14 for VC.
02:25
Respond to cut out of brush fire time is 0.850.
02:29
Central 230-233.
02:31
75, respond to a patient, possibly aspirate on food, near shipment road.
02:37
Medic 5, respond to a patient, partial aspirate on food, near shipment road, time is 08-8-51.
02:42
Yeah, topic to...
02:45
Looks ahead of the fire, they're still pretty far access and we can reach with the vehicles though, is that correct?
02:52
Sorry, say again for chopper 3, you get set up.
02:56
25, respond to patients, possibly asked me on food, near shipment road.
03:02
Like 5,
03:03
respond to a patient, partial aspirate on food.
03:05
Near shipment, time is 08-8-1.
03:08
Yeah. 3-3. Okay, sorry, I haven't dropped it on the board yet.
03:12
I'm going to reopen this call and attach us to the current rush fire on Keanakolu Road.
03:17
HFD is requesting assistance to shut down old Mama Lojahua so they can do bucket drops from the Frogpondi setup.
03:25
It's across the old fellowship church in Ookala, Hilo side about 0.25 miles down.
03:34
State for it? Indicated.
03:36
Ten for. Do you if I stop you hitting that way? Ten four.
03:38
FEC, what say again for Joppa 2?
03:39
Okay, so I'll just try to get at our proximity location to where the vehicles could actually reach from where the head of the fire was.
03:47
They're still inaccessible.
03:49
We look like from, I guess, where Brush Truck 17 is to where the head of the fire is.
03:54
From the top of Kahala road,
03:56
the only axis that I can see is down the fence line,
03:59
right on the edge of the Eucalyptus.
04:00
I mean, if they had the dozer in there, they might be able to cut a road for the brush truck or something, but it's a pretty good distance at this point.
04:08
Even from the top of the eucalyptus down into the trees, that kind of head of the fire, 200 yards is my guess.
04:15
Hard to tell.
04:16
Okay, yeah, I'm talking one copy, thank you.
04:17
Until being one from Chapter 17.
04:19
I'm from BrushF 9.
04:20
Bye bye. Control BrushRf 9 and investigated the area up until the 11-mile marker negative findings.
04:26
No further information of BrushRef 9 will be returning to quarters.
04:28
Special copy returning.
04:29
All right, bye.
04:30
We extinguished the spot fire.
04:32
We spoke to the ranchers.
04:33
They said the flyers approximately 1,500 feet from our location.
04:37
They said there is no access beyond this point by a truck owning ATV.
04:42
They're waiting on their dozers to create a role to gain access to the flyer at this time.
04:49
They're expecting the dozers soon, but no ETA.
04:52
I'll tell you one copy, thanks for the, I don't know if you heard, so I have company 8 and volunteers dispatched as well right now.
05:01
I'm going to get a brush trap of 1, I guess, as well, so that we're ready when we do get access.
Police codes explained
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[1]
10-4: Acknowledgement/Copy
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Hamakua, Laupahoehoe, HI 96764
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