Controlled burn confirmed near Firetower Road, Westmoreland County PA
Fire & ArsonFire crews responded to a large supervised burn near Firetower Road in Fairfield Township. The fire was a controlled burn with no threat to property or people. Firefighters monitored the situation and confirmed the burn was safe and supervised, with no burn ban in effect.
Audio|Source: Westmoreland County Fire
04:40
Transcript:
00:00
What do you have going on? Are you on a fire tire road call?
00:05
Affirmative, straight up, about quarter mile off the Derry Ridge Road, half mile off Derry Ridge Road.
00:10
They timber up here and they have a large pile burning.
00:14
True discretion, what do you want to do with it?
00:20
Is it all controlled?
00:23
For now it is, if the wind kicks up, we might have an issue.
00:31
Banker 45 in with two.
00:35
Banker 45 received.
00:41
Chief to assistant, assistant leader township with Fairfield.
00:46
We're in Fairfield Township by Good Peace.
00:53
Rushwell Evans in with two.
00:58
Rushwell 11 received.
01:00
System 45G 1211.
01:05
Point 11th. One 11,
01:11
Chica.
01:13
You coming in POV.
01:17
I have the trailer and UTV on, but yeah, I'm coming.
01:20
Brush is behind me.
01:23
Attacks will be there momentarily, I would assume.
01:27
Time, Ford, you can have everything known emergency for now.
01:29
I'll let you make the decision when you get here.
01:33
Yeah, I mean, there's no burn ban on.
01:34
If you want to wet the area around down it, wet the area around it down, that's fine, but I don't have any other leg of this thing on to put it out.
01:47
I think if we wet it down, we'll be good.
01:55
Attack,
01:57
do they have access to it to wet it down? Is there enough? Can they get back to it?
02:06
Are not getting any large apparatus back in here?
02:16
Audience, we're out to Firetile Road, Fairfield Township.
02:20
You've received an emergency for Assistant 45.
02:24
I never gave that order.
02:27
You can go ahead with that.
02:32
Tanker 45, hold on fire tower at the intersection,
02:36
brush 111 continue up to see if we can make access to wet area.
02:52
Black 111 is going to be coming on the Dairy Ridge Road as we speak.
03:00
I don't know if you'll make the turn with the attack, you might have to go up the road a little bit farther and turn around, but you're going to come back down.
03:06
It'll be a right if you go up to the tailors and turn around and come back.
03:09
There'll be the second wide spot if you come off of Dairy Ridge Road.
03:14
Appreciate.
03:19
45 assist and 11 chief.
03:20
If you think it's tight,
03:22
then we're going to wait for my brush stuck as the second piece then.
03:26
Do not commit them down in there then.
03:31
They'll be fine.
03:32
They're not going to make the turn coming from the left.
03:34
They're going to have to go up to the tailors or that wide spot turn around and then the road cuts off to the right.
03:37
They'll be perfectly fine coming down in here.
03:41
Okay.
03:48
Old Grand Place.
03:53
Recease. If you feel comfortable with it, we can go in and cancel.
04:05
Alright, just give us a minute there's talking to the owners here.
04:18
45 assists, if you can take that brush and do one side and have my attack through the other side, I appreciate it, unless you don't want to get down in there.
04:28
That's fine, you can send my brush down in also.
04:35
I can go ahead and cancel.
04:37
It's in controlled burn.
04:38
There's people here, and it's supervised, nothing's endangered.
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Location mentioned:
Firetower Rd, Fairfield Township, PA 15658
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