Ups tractor-trailer emits smoke on interstate near Gainesville, Gainesville TX
Fire units responded to reports of a UPS tractor-trailer emitting smoke on northbound Interstate 35 near Highway 82 in Gainesville, Texas. The truck did not stop and continued traveling north, possibly leaving the county. Units were unable to locate the vehicle afterward.
Audio|Source: Gainesville / Cooke County Public Safety
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Transcript:
00:00
The advisor is going to be a UPSMI truck, just north of Highway 82.
00:04
Looks like it's going to be on fire.
00:06
Second trailer duels.
00:11
4.
00:32
To dispatch quint three, ladder one.
00:36
Needs you en route to about the 1400 block of North Interstate 35 for a vehicle fire.
00:42
It'll be on the interstate northbound north of highway 82.
00:48
23 is in route.
00:55
24.3, this information came via the county who got it, I believe, third party.
01:01
So apparently there's a UPS truck that's on fire on the interstate north end, just north of Highway 82.
01:08
That's the only call I got on it.
01:10
That's all the information I have.
01:16
Just by a sub battalion one round.
01:19
Two.
01:22
This guy, so tank one round.
01:26
Tim.
01:31
The other one will not be on this call to be tank one.
01:35
Tim.
01:40
You need a 333.
01:42
Can you be en route?
01:44
This is the fire department.
01:46
I've got a possible vehicle fire on the interstate northbound,
01:51
just north of the 498.
01:54
3303-0-36.
02:00
We're going to loop around and get on where y'all did.
02:09
I didn't see anything going north.
02:22
PDA 333, just be advised the fire unit initially was UTL on a fire, but they are going to loop around and continue looking for it.
02:36
All right.
02:44
This is past 4.3.
02:45
Have you received any more calls on this? We've made it past the 500.
02:49
We're unable to locate anything.
02:53
Negative. I actually never got any call.
02:56
The security got it and gave it, gave me the info.
03:11
Dispatch,
03:13
the panel.
03:16
The table, go ahead.
03:19
You make contact with county and make sure this is going to be more found?
03:26
She said no one.
03:27
She's stated north.
03:28
We'll check again.
03:31
Free seat, thank you.
03:37
Spatched about one.
03:39
I spoke with County.
03:40
She did advise that she had called them back.
03:42
The vehicle did not stop.
03:44
It continued on.
03:45
It was pulling a dual trailer and the smoke was coming out of the back of it.
03:53
All right, Steve.
03:56
We'll check it out a little further and it's probably clear.
04:01
Yeah for.
04:06
for the complainant again and she had stated that the UPS truck did not stop it was pulling a dual trailer and the smoke was coming from the back.
04:15
It might be out of our jurisdiction by now.
04:16
I'll notify Love County.
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