Brush fire spreads near Rogers Ave toward Spruce St, Norwich CT
WildfireFirefighters and police are responding to a brush fire near Rogers Ave spreading toward Spruce St in Ledyard, Connecticut. Multiple fire units are working to contain the fire and protect nearby vehicles and buildings. The fire is moving quickly toward the hill and wooded areas. Resources including engines, tankers, and manpower are being dispatched to manage the blaze and prevent further spread. Several cars near Rogers Ave are at risk and booster lines are deployed to protect them. The estimated area affected is about one acre.
Audio|Source: Ledyard Police and Fire
08:15
Transcript:
00:00
Pee is reporting is starting the spread towards Spruce now.
00:04
Or,
00:08
it's probably 10 admin in this, I know.
00:10
You got a touch.
00:12
Attack 1.
00:14
Okay.
00:20
No, we're told her from the 9-1.
00:22
Answering the time on.
00:28
Why don't you start lower hill also?
00:41
North fire riding lower hill to the assignment,
00:44
rush fire area near Rogers Ave.
00:49
1-200,000.
00:57
Senator.
00:59
Pleasure?
01:06
Fire adding Laurel Hill to the assignment in the area near Rogers Ave for the brush fire.
01:12
North Far adding lower hill to the assignment for the brush fire near Rogers Ave.
01:17
Case 17-950-00.
01:20
North, squad 8.
01:22
Agent 2 is out of here, North.
01:23
Can we have an attack shell?
01:25
8-0-170
01:28
Cut.
01:30
TAC 1[1].
01:31
All units operating near Rogers Ave and operating on TAC 1[1].
01:36
Any six such?
01:40
Squad X for 3X.
01:42
Okay.
01:43
Squad is on.
01:46
Yeah, we're going to go over Rogers and do what we got up there.
01:55
You're going to go up with you if you tank water if you need it.
01:58
There's also hydrant center.
02:00
Engine 2, Squad A.
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I'm going to have you go over.
02:04
Action 2 has 4-3-1 from Squad A.
02:13
I'm just going to have you come over to Rogers as well.
02:16
Please.
02:21
My fire, Carcincts are responding.
02:31
Thank you. The tiny one for 3X.
02:35
Hi, that's 3X.
02:41
Chief, we're at the top of Rodgers.
02:44
It's on the, you consider the left-hand side running up the hill all to the ledge on the top.
02:52
I got car 10 going over the spruce see if there's a better access.
03:03
What's our question?
03:20
Knowledge fire from Battalion 1.
03:23
Battalion 1 will be establishing commands.
03:26
The bulk of the fire is off of Rogers.
03:31
I'll see, Battalion 1 on scene establishing Rogers out, for Aaron.
03:36
Volker fire off of Rogers.
03:39
Section 2, Cartin, Act 1.
03:43
All right.
03:49
Can you go up there and take a right commit and just take a look before we get boxed in up there? Okay.
03:57
Engine 2 to Battalion 1, type 1.
04:02
Go ahead, engine 2.
04:08
Four hanging, central,
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sorry, center and Laurel Hill, while Car 10 looks at the end of Spruce before we get boxed in up there.
04:26
Six-nine, please.
04:29
Go ahead, car six.
04:31
690, commit.
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Office 31. Do we know why Deshift was out here earlier?
04:38
Go ahead, car six.
04:41
Do you want an engine or do you want to brush truck or everything?
04:45
Coming out of the squad X?
04:48
I'll take an engine first and then brush truck after that.
04:54
And two men were yelling each other on the second floor hallway.
05:00
Okay, I'm responding to Glock, so I don't know what to call us.
05:05
Right.
05:07
Okay, we have squad X-on-fire, roll one.
05:10
Go out of squad X-on-fire Rebel.
05:13
Go ahead, squad of X-Man's on.
05:20
Vision 3 has a hydrant at the end.
05:23
They're trying into that and they're just going to take their deck going to start lava and water up.
05:28
We have a couple cars on Rodgers that are a little bit in danger.
05:34
We'll also be pulling a booster line to protect them.
05:38
I'm up in the woods right now just trying to get a handle on how big of an area we're dealing with.
05:48
Received, squad AX.
05:49
I am down just below the corner of Rogers.
05:55
I can't add you two.
05:58
Scott.
06:00
Car six from retiring one.
06:03
Car six, I'm good.
06:06
Yeah, head up here, the fire is heading this way.
06:10
Chris.
06:12
Pritha.
06:14
Probably send at the battalion.
06:17
Okay.
06:20
We're looking for manpower and probably your tanker.
06:28
Prit, tanker, manpower.
06:31
Probably turn to battalion one.
06:35
Go ahead, Cartin.
06:37
I'm going to have engine two come to the end of Spruce and jack-a-line in air and hit it from this end.
06:43
They're going to need another engine up here to support them for water.
06:49
Received.
06:51
I'll send Lower Hills Tanker to you.
06:55
Engine two to come in.
06:57
Go ahead, engine two.
06:58
Come in, John.
07:04
I just confirmed in the street with car 60.
07:07
He's grabbing the tanker and I assumed that they would come back and stuff so that jazzed what you just said.
07:14
Receive.
07:21
Thank you. New driver,
07:24
hold that pressure a little through on from TWAZ.
07:31
Squad AX from command.
07:34
All right, Chief.
07:38
Give me a rough estimate on Acres.
07:46
I say we're dealing with about one.
07:48
I made visual contact with car 10 coming from screw.
07:52
If two can get a line in, we can stop it from spreading to this side.
07:56
It is going pretty fast.
07:59
Received.
08:01
I'll send all lower hills resources to the engine two side.
08:07
See, that's going to be the best access.
08:10
Squat step 431 from SquatX.
08:14
Bye.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
TAC 1: Tactical radio channel 1 used for incident operations
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Location mentioned:
Near Rogers Ave, Norwich, CT 06360
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