Wildfire causes heavy smoke near West 4th Street, Hattiesburg MS


A wildfire has flared up again near West 4th Street, producing heavy smoke that crosses the road. Fire crews are actively fighting the fire, and deputies are requested to manage traffic due to fire trucks on the road.
Audio|Source: Forrest County Public Safety
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Transcript:
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Do you advise if we're going to need forestry or something we can handle?
00:04
32 is? All central mar units take your traffic tack three.
00:07
All essential tomorrow units take your traffic tack three.
00:09
Is that going to be something we're going to be able to handle or we're going to have to get foresting around? I've seen an awful lot of smoke.
00:15
Okay. I've got heavy smoke at this time when we're trying to knock it down.
00:19
23. I got them looks like a minniacs out here.
00:22
Two more. If we got anybody on site that is burning all this,
00:26
FC1, you over on track 3.
00:27
It's going to be the same place we was at last night.
00:29
More we can understand it, it's probably jumped the fire line.
00:32
They're trying to get an attack on it right.
00:33
If you could get us a deputy en route this location, near West 4th Street, we're going to have a lot of smoke crossing road, fire trucks out in road.
00:40
We're going to need some traffic control, please.
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W 4th St, Hattiesburg, MS
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