Combine Fire Spreads Into Wildfire Near Thomas Ave, Clark County WI
A fire started in a combine in a cornfield near Thomas Avenue and Bobwhite Road spread into a wildfire. Firefighters requested mutual aid and off-road equipment to help contain the wildfire spreading through the cornfields and nearby prairie grass.
Audio|Source: Taylor County Area Public Safety
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Transcript:
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Dride, Matt, the wildfire didn't even have much to get the tires on out there.
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There'll be much of a track anyway.
00:08
I'm just looking at, we're going to need a dependable line in there because this fire's run into the, I call it, the northeast corner up here,
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and on the other side of the cornfields all that prairie grass.
00:27
Probably would get them rolling just in case something hits the fan here because we're not winning this battle yet down here.
00:42
Could you dispatch greenwood for some usual leave here to this call? Maybe with some off-road equipment for a wildfire.
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Ten for.
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Tension Greenwood Fire, you're being requested by Nielsville Fire for Combine Fire that is now turned into wildfire as well with Cornfield. They're looking for off-road equipment for wildland fire.
01:27
It's going to be Thomas Avenue and Bobwhite, just south of Bobwhite on Thomas Avenue.
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End of the first page for Mutual Aid, 1403.
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Attention Greenwood Fire. You're being requested for mutual aid from Nealzill Fire.
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You're being requested Thomas Avenue, South Bobwhite Road for a combine fire that turned into a wildfire of a cornfield.
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You're being requested for off-road equipment for wildfire. End of page,
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mutual aid page 1403.
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Location mentioned:
Thomas Ave & Bobwhite Rd, Weston, WI 54437
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