Brush piles and railroad ties burning near country market, Vandalia MO
Fire & ArsonTwo small brush piles and possibly railroad ties were burning near the country market in Vandalia, creating smoke and a smell like rubber. Officers investigated to confirm it was a controlled burn and not a suspicious fire.
Audio|Source: Audrain County Missouri Public Safety
02:25
Transcript:
00:00
Is there somebody burning something or something on fire south of Vandalia? Because it smells like rubber and there's a lot of smoke up here by the country market.
00:11
I don't know.
00:12
There's two brush piles burning there when I come on, but I didn't see invisible flame, but there are two piles burning there.
00:18
Temple, that might be what it is then, because I can see the smoke and I can smell it.
00:22
6-4-5-3, it might be railroad ties on the train tracks, so I'm going to get out and check.
00:28
Okay, thank you.
00:29
Can you find out of touch?
00:31
Good photo. about there all-right.
00:33
Hey, Patrick. Can't have any control barns up and around Van Day today today?
00:36
So we have one at about 1433 behind county market.
00:41
Okay, that's where 860 is going to be.
00:43
I just talked to the guy, he said he thought there's a control burn up here, so that's what that's going to be.
00:48
Is that in town or what was the address on? I'm sorry.
00:51
The caller David is just behind county market.
00:53
Okay, I'm pretty sure that's just where that's where 6'4 is that, he's directly across over there, so that guy said that he thought that's what they was.
01:02
5-3, yeah, I'm clear from there.
01:04
There's just two little piles burning, but just the smell of the railroad ties burning caught my attention.
01:11
Yeah, like I said, I checked on it thoroughly today, but I didn't walk out there like you probably did, so...
01:18
Yeah, there's a nice little footpath through there, so somebody's been using it frequently.
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Location mentioned:
Near Highway 54 West, 1555 US-54 Ste 20, Vandalia, MO 63382
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