Large brush pile fire monitored near 33rd West Avenue and Apache, Tulsa OK
Fire & ArsonFire crews responded to a large brush pile fire near 33rd West Avenue and Apache in Tulsa. The fire appears to be a controlled or prescribed burn with heavy equipment working in the area. There is a dirt firebreak around the fire. Firefighters are monitoring the fire and considering whether to extinguish it or continue to observe it until it dies down. Hydrants are available nearby, and no threatening spread was reported.
Audio|Source: Tulsa, Creek, Rogers and Wagoner Counties Public Safety
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Transcript:
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204. 37, okay, I'll head over there before.
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641 is on saying B,
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35370 command.
00:12
I got B 641, 33rd, West Avenue command.
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to Grass Rig 24.
00:23
Go ahead for Grass Route 24.
00:28
Hey, Gerald, when you come back here, you're going to be going down like an oil lease road.
00:34
You'll get to a pump jack.
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When you get there, just kind of hang tight.
00:39
We're picking our way through a trail, and I'm going to let you know if it's a good trail or a bad trail before you commit.
00:47
I copy that, so just follow this row back to pump and kill.
00:54
You'll see an old pump jack and just kind of stage right there, tell the hauler my catch.
01:05
7-6-0.
01:07
Okay.
01:11
About the pump jack right when we first pull in here.
01:15
No, you'll drive back in there probably a half a mile before you hit that pump jack.
01:20
You should be able to see our tracks.
01:25
I copy.
01:28
Okay,
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copy. Let me know if there's one close, see if we have to start setting up a shuttle operation or something, I'll probably have you doing it.
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Page 13, copy.
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Stand by.
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Commandman.
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Go ahead for Maine.
01:50
I hear some other apparatus come.
01:52
You got any volunteer companies headed this way?
01:56
Not that I am aware of.
02:00
Copy. Will you check with some of the surrounding black dog and see if they have somebody responding?
02:06
That's affirmative.
02:07
We'll check.
02:12
Go ahead.
02:15
Chief, we're just now pulling in with Engine-13 UTV.
02:22
That must have been you.
02:28
Grassroot 1-3 to command.
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Command, go ahead.
02:36
We've picked our way in here to where the fire is at.
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We have a very large pile of brush that they've been dozing up with excavators.
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It's on fire.
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It's dirt all the way around it, about a hundred yards circle.
02:52
They've got a dozer going to try to go back in here so we can return companies.
02:59
I copy. It looks like it was a prescribed burn.
03:02
Maid, do you know anything about the burn permit for this area?
03:27
Sounds like we might not be putting this out, I'm not sure, but it looks like we've got a hydrant, right? That closes one looks to be at Apache and 33rd, and then the next one over is not until 25th West Avenue and Apache.
03:44
We have a little pretty close.
03:45
Just stand by for a second.
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Command 2, Grasherig 1, 3.
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Go ahead, 2.
03:54
Chad, what your plank will be? You're going to sit here and watch it a little bit until it dies down or we're just going to leave it the way it is?
04:04
See if I sent you a video if you got your cell phone.
04:07
This thing's firebreak around it for a big area.
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They dug a pit and they have a commercial blower feeding air to this thing.
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Nobody's here on site with me.
04:19
But reality is we couldn't get this thing out if we wanted to.
04:28
I can't be described.
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Location mentioned:
N 33rd W Ave & W Apache St, Tulsa, OK 74127
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