Firefighters coordinate suppression near creek and hillside, Hardy County WV
WildfireFirefighters coordinated efforts to suppress a brush fire near a creek, hillside, and roadway. They discussed access points, water supply, and positioning of engines and brush trucks to contain hotspots along a steep hillside and around the creek area.
Audio|Source: Hardy County Public Safety
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Transcript:
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Brush 400 to 46, ma'am.
00:06
There you.
00:08
Hey, we're up here on the corridor side.
00:11
How do we get in the gate?
00:14
Please sign.
00:20
Brush and everything is on your side of the creek.
00:23
Not really a whole lot of fuel down in the bottom, just some little scrub brush.
00:27
Pretty flat and the creek is running.
00:34
Well, we use that as our bottom line.
00:38
We're up to the road here.
00:39
We just hit this upper end.
00:43
Let's see where she goes from there.
00:47
Yeah, there's a few hotspots along the hillside, which is real steep, but, you know, I may about four or five of them is all the reason to see right now.
00:58
Anything you get water to?
01:03
Let me look.
01:07
462G-466. You want me down there next to that house or where you want me?
01:13
Talk to Brush 46 see where they were in.
01:16
Let's get in down and come in where they're at.
01:23
462 Brush 46, where'd you come in there, that house driveway?
01:30
Yeah.
01:32
Kind of disappears over the hill by itself there.
01:37
Stand for, I hit...
01:43
Depending on Lofton, I don't know where that tree is,
01:48
where you see that fire up the hall.
01:50
Is there any way of getting to that point right there? Is there anything we can do there?
02:00
I think we can pull the engine up past this tree and they're right up through that holler where the creek is.
02:07
That fire is right next to the creek here.
02:09
But I think we can pull a line up the creek and get it.
02:14
And I, when the next unit comes in, just take them right there, you all work on that.
02:22
Pull our engine up there.
02:26
Brush 400 should be the next unit in.
02:29
We'll just pull our engine up there and use the hose off it.
02:32
We've got forestry on it.
02:35
It works for me.
02:37
When I get there, they can help you.
02:39
Chief, I'm abandon my tanker, but I'll be in the eyesight of it.
02:47
All right.
02:52
Prett had lost in Rush 400.
02:53
What's your location?
02:57
Right up above you?
03:00
Yeah, you want to buy us.
03:01
You should have went in that road there,
03:04
near Clifford Holw Road or whatever it was there.
03:08
Taylor.
03:14
You turn around and come back down here to us.
03:17
Right at the tailboard of our engine, there's a logging load.
03:21
Plenty enough room you can cut down through here.
03:24
Chief, we can drive that rush drop right down here to that fire.
03:28
Okay.
03:31
Copy that.
03:37
We won't get right to it, but we'll get very close to it.
03:44
Okay.
03:51
We're in the bottom.
03:52
We're going to lay up there.
03:57
I've seen you there a minute ago.
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Location mentioned:
Clifford Holw Rd, West Virginia 26836
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