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Crews battle vegetation fire near Northwest 218th PlaceAlachua County FL

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NW 218 St, Florida 32615

Fire crews and forestry aircraft responded to a vegetation fire near Northwest 218th Place. The area had limited access, and the fire burned through wooded terrain. Ground and aerial units coordinated containment efforts, and no injuries or exposed structures were reported.

Audio|Source: Gainesville Police and Alachua Fire
03:37
Transcript:
00:00
Just confirmed you have not made any better access to the seat of the fire.
00:04
Negative, not yet.
00:05
We're coming back out to the main hard road now.
00:09
Let's see, this looks like it's going to be a deep seed of woods fire.
00:12
It's going to be best like forestry.
00:14
New file access for the aerial.
00:16
It doesn't like much of.
00:17
Way of Exposures.
00:19
Copy that. We'll be at the hard road momentarily.
00:24
Let's see if I'll meet up with you over there.
00:26
Ray, to watch with (number withheld), you should be established an near 218th Place command.
00:31
(number withheld) establishing (number withheld) to northwest, 218 command.
00:36
No fluid leak, no almost thrown from the vehicles.
00:39
Here, (number withheld), are you 26 on that?
00:42
Watch for (number withheld).
00:43
(number withheld). You can make contact with Forta Forest Service.
00:46
They've got their aircraft in the area, circling it can give us the size up.
00:51
We'll have them.
00:52
Any Sierra Unit for notification on the (number withheld)?
00:54
(number withheld). Make sure you're 26, (number withheld), Southwest Archer Road in 16th Avenue, playing a back injury.
00:59
And there's roadblocks.
01:01
(number withheld), I'm 26.
01:02
I'm on the phone.
01:03
26.
01:04
India 1, (number withheld).
01:05
India 1, (number withheld).
01:07
(number withheld). (number withheld). (number withheld).
01:09
Quebec for sure.
01:15
Engine 2 should respond to a vehicle accident.
01:18
Southwest Archeroid and Southwest 16th Avenue.
01:21
We'll show you on CNS (number withheld).
01:29
(number withheld), Southwest 40th Boulevard.
01:32
Call out of our homeless subjects, sleeping passed out by the drainage ditch in the area.
01:39
Wanting them checked out, I thought he may be having a medical emergency.
01:43
Medical emergency.
01:45
(number withheld). (number withheld).(number withheld).
01:48
Will she respond to an outside fire?
01:50
Southwest Archeroid and Southwest 40th Boulevard.
01:52
It's made the intersection of Southwest Archer Road and Southwest 40th Boulevard.
01:58
Command engine (number withheld).
02:01
Do we need to commit down this driveway?
02:04
Negative stage on that road.
02:06
Okay, okay.
02:10
Do we have any kind of description or history with this caller?
02:18
All I have, the caller has been a female caller, no name.
02:23
And no phone history.
02:24
No phone history before.
02:26
It's going to be a...
02:28
NGITU stand by.
02:29
Quinti, it's going to be just south of our route on 41st, or on 40th Boulevard.
02:34
There's also going to be a person that's sleeping or passed out near this area as well.
02:38
Law enforcement's also got a call, (number withheld).
02:40
Ninja 2. Do you just have to rescue this call? No, sir, C.
02:50
(number withheld) Alasha command turn 18 the DOF currently has three resources on route estimated arrival time for all three will be between 10 and 20 minutes so far so far they also have an aircraft in the area they'll have a size up for us momentarily let's see we have eyes on aircraft we're circling now measure safe launch a back to 18 plan
03:20
Go ahead.
03:21
The Forestry's aircraft in the area, we're going to release TL1.
03:30
COF aircraft in the area you're releasing which unit, sir?
03:34
TL1. Message received, showing TL1 available.

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