Wildfire spreading rapidly into ranch near Neupia Homestead Rd, Laupahoehoe HI
WildfireA wildfire is spreading quickly into a ranch near Neupia Homestead Road in Hawaii County. Authorities are coordinating efforts and discussing the use of nearby water reservoirs to help fight the fire from the air.
Audio|Source: Hawaii County Public Safety - Hamakua/North Hilo
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Transcript:
00:00
What road does units take to go up to the fire from the highway?
00:05
There's going to be Homestead Road.
00:07
It's going to be on the helo side of the, what was the banana bridge.
00:11
Okay. Control copy.
00:13
NewP.O. Homestead Road.
00:14
Yeah, fire control, correction.
00:15
Neupia Homestead Road, not just Homestead Road.
00:17
New U.U.P.L.
00:19
Homestead Road. Control coffee.
00:20
You see watchofford too.
00:21
Everyone's starting way.
00:22
The ranchers are, I can confirm, the fire is burning into the ranch pretty rapidly.
00:26
That reservoir is approximately four minutes turn for drop or two, so it might be a little quicker.
00:33
But, I mean, we could probably put it dead in that fire if we were to utilize the reservoirs, but at the moment, it's going to be about a 10-minute turnaround.
00:41
Yeah, you can use the reservoirs that the guy came up here and talked about, yeah, still no authorization to use a closer one, sorry, it is what it is.
00:54
Okay, good copy for Chopper 2, yep, yeah, about 10 minutes to the one that we got authorized to use.
00:58
It might be a little quicker than actually going down to the frog pond, but let's keep that thing just for backup for now.
01:05
Copy that, yeah, we'll keep the frog font.
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Location mentioned:
Hamakua, Laupahoehoe, HI 96764
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