Motorhome catches fire on highway in Tonto Basin, Tonto Basin AZ
Fire & ArsonA motorhome caught fire on the side of a highway in Tonto Basin, Arizona. The motorhome was fully involved in flames, and a propane tank exploded. Firefighters confirmed the fire did not spread to nearby plants, and all occupants escaped safely.
Audio|Source: Tonto Basin Fire
05:12
Transcript:
00:00
Alert, tunnel basin, stand by for fire assignments. Oh, alarm tunnel basin, if you can respond to the area between mile post 252 and 253, it's going to be an reference to the trailers on fire. They're going to be pulled off to the side of the road.
00:26
911 copies. Alarm, keep 9 copies. Can you show me a route? Keep 9 and copy. 1251. Alarm to Tano Basin. Go ahead. Be advised, the fire is now starting up the ground.
00:55
Paying for a wound. Hey, Chief Nine, engine 666 on your channel. Let's go ahead, 6666. Hey, I can currently see the smoke, red, orange, so we're about three, four minutes out. Copy that, yeah, it's show on the Vita Flats area. Yep, A-Firm, it's gonna be on the, uh...
01:24
Sounds good and it looks like ADOP over here on the west side as well right now. You can show Henson 91 and water tender 91 in Ralph. I copy it's 1253
01:39
Engine 666, Chief 9.
01:41
Hey, Chief 9, 666, go ahead.
01:44
When you guys arrive on scene, can you give me just kind of a size-up of the trailer and if the vehicle still attached?
01:50
Hey, Chief 9, engine 666.
01:53
The RV currently don't see any spread to the vegetation, but we did just have a propane tank blow up.
01:59
Um, yeah.
02:01
I copy at this time you did have one propane tank blow up.
02:04
Is this a, uh,
02:06
being pulled by a truck or is it being, or is it a straight RV?
02:10
Yeah, so it's going to be a motorhome, a brand new motorhome, probably 30, 40 feet long, no trailer attached.
02:17
I copy that, thank you.
02:19
Break engine 91, 10991, be advised you're going to have a wide load as you start hitting the lake area.
02:27
You on copy.
02:28
Form C.9 has DPS been notified.
02:31
That's affirmative DPS is on team.
02:34
Alarm, you can show Chief Nine on the scene.
02:37
I do have one fully involved with RV at this time.
02:41
You can show me as Highway 188 command, brake engine 91.
02:47
I'm going to have you pass my vehicle, go between my vehicle and the RV.
02:51
It is on the east side, east side of the roadway.
02:54
We do have a good pull-out here.
02:55
There's a rude link.
02:56
991 copies.
02:58
Go between your vehicle and the RV.
02:59
Confirm that everyone has made it out of that RV.
03:02
That's affirmative.
03:03
The caller who called this in was the one with the RV.
03:08
She advised it was just her and her husband and everybody was out.
03:11
Ah, thank you.
03:12
10-4[1], 1,300.
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10-4: Acknowledgement
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Location mentioned:
AZ-188, Tonto Basin, AZ
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