Small Campfire Found Near Wooded Area On Fowler Ave, Hillsborough County FL
Fire & ArsonDeputies responded to a report of a fire in a wooded area near Fowler Avenue, Florida. They found a small campfire at a homeless camp, which was not spreading and appeared non-criminal. The campers have permission from property owners to stay on nearby business property.
Audio|Source: Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office
04:19
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0419 hours.
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The fire is obscuring the player image.
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You said there's a fire somewhere in the wooded area?
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Yeah, there's a unit that stopped on Fowler next to the wooded area.
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And about halfway into the woods, there's a, it looks like a homeless camp.
00:26
Probably somebody next to the fire, it's just hard for me to tell.
00:29
All right, let's go out of the vehicle.
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I'll walk that way.
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It's just more a little bit soft into the woods.
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For my vehicle, who...
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Yes, sir, directly south from your vehicle,
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it's probably 300 feet head there.
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So the diesel weighs.
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I go to 28, I think they do.
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And so we're going to try to see how far this road gets us from this south side.
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For next to 28.
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Zero 6 in Turkey Creek, 04.0.0.07, 1k.07, 1 kilo-kil of Gulf.
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That's a gradient ultima.
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1040421 hours.
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Three echo 29, 1050.
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Not very far.
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Three echo 29.
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On MLK in Bethlehem, Florida tag, Idaho, Whiskey,
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4-5 Echo Golf on a white Ford focus.
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Casey, is that little driveway back there going anywhere or is it just a dead end like this is?
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1040421 hours.
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It branches off, it goes back there.
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It's a decent distance, but you gotta go through for it.
01:52
All right, I'm coming back to you.
01:58
Yes, so do you see me at my truck over here? Echo area at Echo 3-3Zone.
02:03
Dispatch 3 Echo 46 to a signal 13 person at Lithia Pinecris Road and South Miller Road.
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Lithia Pinecrest Road and South Miller Road...
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0422 hours.
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Yeah, I see it.
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Through echo 46.
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Is there any pass that gets me where I need to be or am I going to be bushwhacking that you can see?
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Three echo 46.
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The easiest way is going to be out of a Fowler behind the other deputies.
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I don't see a pathway that's clear from where you're at looking, but I don't see one right now.
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Reference this tipster.
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We've been out there as many times the revisited the same exact thing, and we're never able to come to take you five with any property owner.
02:50
What is going on there.
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All right, Timbo, thank you.
02:55
Let's get somebody up to Hayes so he doesn't try and go in there by himself.
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I'm here with him.
03:02
10-423 hours.
03:04
We stumbled across the LF2MP camp over here, trying to make contact with us.
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Yeah, so did you see if this is where the fire is at?
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Yeah, I see you're going.
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I'm sure you can see the fire from there.
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If not, it's going to be about your 10 o'clock.
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Might just be a reminence of a fire.
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I might not be able to see an active flame.
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But, yeah, just walk towards your left some more.
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It's about 9 o'clock for me.
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3x28, 104 year, 1050 feet.
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About 70 feet.
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10404 hours.
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104 wheels raise a small campfire kind of heat.
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Yeah, do you keep going?
04:01
About 60 feet prep you is another one.
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Eagle 47.
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Thank you very much for seven.
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Our friend's Echo 46 call.
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We've been there multiple times and the campers, they're in campers and they have permission from people on the business property to stay there.
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E Fowler Ave, Florida
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