Brush fire reported near Old Matoaka and Lamar roads, Mercer County WV
WildfireA brush fire started near the roadside at Old Matoaka Road and Lamar Road. A witness tried to put it out but the fire spread upwards on the mountain because of the wind. Forestry, county fire units, and Wyoming County were notified due to the location close to the county line.
Audio|Source: Mercer County Public Safety Dispatch
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Transcript:
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Marshal Control Station 107, Department of Forestry.
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This received a call about a brush fire on near Old Matoaka Road.
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Old Matoaka Road,
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the caller just stated somewhere near Lamar Road.
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She wasn't for sure, she just got cell service, but she's already over in Wyoming County.
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She said the fire started at the road edge, her husband tried to stop it out.
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About the joint is blowing it up in the mountain.
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We're also calling Wyoming County.
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It is 320.
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4-6-4-6 control.
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Good.
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I'll be not going to the paper.
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If it's close to any houses or anything.
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She did not.
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She actually was over Wyoming County at a camping ground when she got cell service with her staying.
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So she was kind of just remembering the signs that she saw.
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She said her husband saw it at first and he tried to stop it out.
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That's how small it was.
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However, with the wind blowing, it started to climb up the mountain.
01:29
Yeah, what did they give up,
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crossing the area on, Oklahoma?
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She said,
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coming into Lamar is how she put it.
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Again, she was just looking at her GPS map.
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We're calling, well, I mean to see if they had already gotten a call about it or if that was their area.
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They said they were going to send somebody to check it out.
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T.4.
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I was Bonner from Princeton.
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You have an update to the other game.
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Thank you.
02:10
You know, a traffic try again.
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Oh, 4C7.
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R7.
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I'm sorry, sir, your traffic's no good.
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Control, one.
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Control, 46, 46.
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Yeah.
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Okay. I just got the phone once in a meeting again.
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I believe this may help you out a little bit.
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They said that they were on Lamar Road.
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They had turned off of Old Matoaka Road.
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They went by the train trestle and they said that this fire is near a blue store burned down.
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Are you familiar?
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I'm familiar.
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Okay, we did advise Wyoming County just to confirm.
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I don't know where that blue store is.
03:24
That is on our side, right?
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Yeah, 104. I think it's, I forget, it's South Road, at the intersection with Peter's Gap Road.
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Okay, am I good to stand Wyoming now?
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Yeah, 104.
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Thank you.
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One or seven, Claw 7.
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I don't know if you heard the update to Forestry, but it says John Lamar would pass the train trestle near the old blue store that burned down.
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So far you're the only one that's marked up.
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Location mentioned:
Co Hwy 10/11 & Lamar Rd, West Virginia 24747
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