Garage grease fire reported near Melton Road, Hanover County VA

Fire & Arson

Reported: 10/30/2025 07:31 AM

Wildwood Blvd & Sunset Dr, Virginia 23005

Fire crews responded to reports of a structure fire near Wildwood Boulevard and Sunset Drive. Upon arrival, no fire was found at that location. A citizen then reported a garage fire near Melton Road caused by a grease fire on a smoker. Emergency teams proceeded to that location to handle the fire.

Audio|Source: Hanover County Fire / EMS

02:47

Transcript:

00:00

a structure fire on Walwood.

00:06

1033.

00:07

Amos 411, are you in round?

00:12

Goet thrown out.

00:15

Enter, yours.

00:20

Ended 410.

00:22

Go ahead.

00:28

Can you replace us on the structure boxes on it and I'm going to move off the tag to BIS.

00:39

Okay, for aires.

00:46

Engines, 409 and 417.

00:50

Structure Fire, Wildwood Boulevard and Sunset Drive.

00:54

Engines, 409 and 417.

00:57

Structure Fire, Wildwood Boulevard and Sunset Drive.

01:02

Station 16th District, Pack 5, Time of 1033.

01:11

There we can have engine 417 move up to station 1.

01:15

1034.

01:24

Engine 417 move up to station 1.

01:28

Engine 417 move up to station 1.

01:31

1034.

01:36

1034.

01:42

What's up here we have?

01:48

May 4-1 to handover.

01:51

We're going to need a federal location.

01:53

We're at Sunset and...

02:00

Melton with nothing town.

02:04

And for our Hall, call her back, she continued to advise Sunset Drive and Wildwood Boulevard.

02:11

Javi, we've made contact with her and she has pointed us in the direction of Sunset and Melton. We saw nothing found.

02:23

We have a second citizen saying, on Melton, there's a garage fire.

02:32

Happy, each four-one.

02:34

Just drop your line and respond down this way. It's going to be a rural water operation.

02:42

B1Files Melt Road, he stopped us and said he had a grease fire on a smoker and then my...

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Wildwood Blvd & Sunset Dr, Virginia 23005

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