Brush fire started by target practice at nursery, Hillsboro OR
Fire & ArsonA brush fire started on nursery property near Southwest Tongue Lane and Southwest West Drive. It was caused by people doing target practice with firearms. Multiple fire units and law enforcement responded to control the spreading fire. All firearms were secured by authorities at the scene.
Audio|Source: Washington County Fire and EMS
07:52
Transcript:
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Engine 35, an AMR 121.
00:03
Respond to Code 1[1] comma.
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At near Southwest 115 Avenue.
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Units C-08.
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Cross streets are southwest Calistel Street and southwest to Wavutton Road.
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Farcom, heavy brush A.
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Marcia, go ahead.
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Put us in place of engine 8 and take engine 8 out of service.
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Ferrarcon, copy.
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Hurricane 1.
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Engine 1, go ahead.
00:26
We're available. We're going to add to the brushfire.
00:27
Copy. And Farcom, heavy brush 8 in Ralph.
00:29
Copy. Firecom, brush 86, can you add it to the brush fry as well and chosen route, please?
00:33
Brush 8, please, copy.
00:34
Farcom, a C-11, is this still in at a task force?
00:37
That's affirmative. Go ahead and upgrade it to full box.
00:39
We've got a pretty good header.
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I met the LORO from our correction 219.
00:44
Copy upgrading to first of all, I'm sorry.
00:46
We're on the bus box.
00:47
We're on the bus box.
00:48
So it's around.
00:49
Copy. Push Rig 1.
00:50
Respond to Brush Fire.
00:52
At near Town Lane and near West 2 Drive.
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Working Channel Ops 35.
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I'm in the area.
00:58
I'm having a hard time finding access to it.
01:00
It looks like it's on the nursery property.
01:02
I'll keep looking at devise access point.
01:05
Flat drive and southeast three drive.
01:08
It's going to be 3-2633 on near Tongue Lane and just information for C-11 and all incoming units.
01:16
We have added PD and they're not en route but they do things that they were doing target practice and that's what started the brush fire.
01:24
All firearms on the parties calling in have been put away in vehicles.
01:29
Seal and copy.
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I'm entering at 33151, which is on the west side of the property.
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I'll see if this will access or not.
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1-2-4.
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124 responding to the circuit traffic from AMROS.
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1547.
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C-11 from VR1.
01:46
We're getting waved down by a vehicle down here.
01:50
I'll get an address.
01:51
Looks like the access is going to be here.
01:53
Yeah, you're probably right.
01:54
This wasn't looking good on my end.
01:55
It's all this fire.
01:56
Can we get a marker dropped at the location for entrance?
01:58
Yeah, no one copy that.
02:00
Go on. We're coming up behind you.
02:02
We'll drop a mark on our way in.
02:03
Cabby then.
02:04
It's crossing off a circuit drive.
02:06
Vision is going to be near the front entrance, a 65-year-old female at the ground level fall.
02:09
She is having a rapid heart rate and reasons hard.
02:11
Also possible in the entry.
02:13
What's your forecast. We're going to stage at the house, less enough we have room for us down there.
02:16
Hey, Abby that. We're just not to arrive right now.
02:18
Oh, yes, we got Heavy Rush 19, right behind Vision 1.
02:21
Go ahead and move forward, Heavy.
02:22
Yeah, there's going to be plenty of room down here.
02:25
Let's get the rush break down here first.
02:27
Standby. BR1's arrived.
02:28
Probably about a 200 by 100 slow-moving rush fire.
02:32
It looks like a day started by a...
02:34
We're going to be out with a fire station.
02:38
That's 50-49.
02:39
Brush fire out extinguishing 1549.
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For going to 19, we're going to have Tongue Lang command.
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Brush 1, let's show you, Spinishating Fire Attack, Heavy Brush 19, take the opposite flank.
02:52
Brush two, you can work with your brush one on their flight.
02:58
At the engine one, I'm going to have you handle water supply for a minute.
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Command, Heavy Brush 8.
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I'm about one minute out from the west.
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I also have a Type 6 with me as well.
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Command copy. It's just based on Tom Lane right now.
03:11
Great, Brett Juan from command, or we need a full box on this or can we have the task force? All right, having that actually had the eyes on how far it's running up this hill.
03:25
We're currently working the left flank.
03:27
It's going to get into some trees if we don't get someone on the right flank.
03:29
Okay, command copies.
03:30
If you could get right to the head of the fire, that's your first priority.
03:33
Yeah, I've had BR1 making left length of the head.
03:37
And brush units down at the fire scene.
03:39
Is there room for pumpers and water tenders?
03:41
Yeah, it's a gravel driveway all the way back.
03:45
We have plenty of dry fields for turn around.
03:48
Do we not? Break Engine 1, you want to bump up to the fire?
03:51
We'll move up.
03:52
And then we'll turn around the park.
03:53
The park of water tenders right here when they get here.
03:55
Copy out. We'll see if we can get them all the way down there to prevent some hose.
03:59
Command, every brush 8 and brush 86, staged.
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Next basis stage for a minute.
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Break, brush rigs from command on fire attack.
04:08
Is this going to be mobile or do we need hose on the ground?
04:11
We're mobile on the left flank.
04:14
We need it to the head. It is starting to work down the hill towards its tree line.
04:18
We might need hose lines on the right leg.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
Code 1: Routine, non-emergency response (no lights or siren)
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Location mentioned:
SW Tongue Ln, Hillsboro, OR
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