Firefighters respond to cornfield fire near North Mankato, North Mankato MN
Fire & ArsonFirefighters responded to a fire in a disc cornfield near North Mankato. They coordinated to bring vehicles and water access to the scene. The fire was across a large field, and heavy trucks could not reach the area.
Audio|Source: Blue Earth and Faribault Counties Sheriff, Police and EMS
01:45
Transcript:
00:00
I'm about six minutes out if you really know what you need to help. What else needs to go?
00:07
We need people. Right now I got (name withheld) in the tanker, me and (name withheld) are in the pumper.
00:18
Be coming in from North Mankato here so you know and I can take the van and at least get some guys out there.
00:26
Tenfar. Do we know is it in a yard or in a field or are we going to need a pickup or not?
00:35
You may want to grab the pickup with the side by side. It's out in a field unknown of the condition of the field or not.
00:43
2.17, I'm just arriving on scene. It's about three-quarters of a mile probably across a disk cornfield. He's chisel-palling it.
01:01
Fire to the deputy on scene, is that field plowed or not?
01:06
It is disc and he was ripping it.
01:09
So it is a disc cornfield.
01:18
(name withheld), did you copy that? We probably want to bring the pickup in the side-by-side.
01:24
Ten-four.
01:25
Do we know there's water in the side-by-side yet or no?
01:33
If there's water in the side-by-side yet?
01:37
Ten-four. Ten-four.
01:38
Ten-four. Twenty-seven, Nipa-fire. You're not going to be able to get a heavy truck out here.
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North Mankato, MN 56003
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