Wildfire causes closure of I-70 in Colorado


A wildfire has been reported near I-70 in Colorado. The road is closed in the eastbound direction due to the fire, which is mostly smoldering but under control. Emergency teams are managing the situation and rerouting traffic.
Audio|Source: Summit and Eagle County Public Safety
08:10
Transcript:
Up East, 1749.8. Detain from 9. That's (name withheld) from Seattle. Hey, Battalion 8 from Safety 4. Okay. Yeah, this is one apparatus job. We've got smoldering, knocked down. We'll take water South I-7 first, and then we'll, where we can grab the median first. It doesn't, you can stand everyone else down. I couldn't copy much of that traffic. All I really copied was one vehicle needed. Yeah, one engine job, chief. smoldering, creeping, no activity. I copy one engine needed. Break. All additional units incoming. You guys can stand up. Truck queue copies. Clearing. Truck queue. Division 12. 524, Battalion 8. It's working. Yeah, there needs to do a short safety closure. Yeah, engine 8 wants to close 70s now. We got to close. Wow. Copy. 1351. Copy, closing, eastbound 205[4]. S.O31, did you say wrong soon? Okay, for me. Starting the safety closure. It's that, copy. There's a student. Okay, affirmative. If you're available, that would be great, thanks. Copy. On scene. On the mark will be close. Copy. Some of us 11 can we also notify CSP at that closure? A firm and fortunately 2 is in route but what requesting to know where you want them to go? If you could go to SS31 location, you can take over that closure for now. S11[3] I copy a 1352. BN 209, 1352. Roger is front of 10th. So we're going on, D.B. 24 at 3 times 233. That's a 31. I got the number one in two lanes blocked off. I can get a second here as soon as I can. Okay, I'll be there for about two minutes. Copy 1353. Please show us at location number five. 53. 153. Just time. Launcher with MCS 13[1]. MCS 13. I'm going past the closure point now. I'll head on up to the wildfire, and fortunately, 2, wants to take the closure. 4Chile 2, do you copy direct? Direct, plus in a minute now. 1354. 205 being closed, can we check with CDOT[5] and see if Global and Pass is still closed or if they're pretty good from that? I copy 1354. We can probably hold off on that as SSX. This is going to go quick within 18 minutes, Max. 511's coach 38,002. House swap is complete. ADA, live cycle net 1311. I am departing and powerwishman's yard. Copy that, thank you. You see. Copy 1355. Come on, Tristan, too. I'm coming on, see. Yes, the on ramp is closed. Can we stand up, Snowmack[2]? Copy, 1355. You go back to the plant forest, near a load. Is there a Mac channel available for this closure? I copy you're moving engine 8 closing down three and open up one and two. Okay, from the meeting, no. I've got it. I've got investigators coming up. Yeah, we've got a chunk of muffler, catalytic converter, and obedience. I contacted Summit. They think they're going to have it open within the next 10 minutes, so they asked to hold off on the snowmack channel. Okay, sounds good. I'm face-to-face with some deputy of the 205. And I'll take NCS 15 down here and that we can plug the holes. Then a couple people consider going up. So I'll take her down here and then also roll it up when we open.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
MCS 13: Unit/Officer Call Sign
[2]
Snowmack: Dedicated Incident Channel
[3]
S11: Unit/Officer Call Sign
[4]
205: Mile Marker/Location Reference
[5]
CDOT: Colorado Department of Transportation
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I-70, Colorado
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