Wildfire near Mailbox Road threatens homes in Hilo


Audio|Source: Hawaii County Public Safety - Hamakua/North Hilo
02:22
Transcript:
I'm going to start making notifications. Welcome to 9 Bravo. Firstfall at Company 8, Rushfire, Highway 1937, Malmarker, time is 1339. 9 Bravo, (name withheld). Copy 9 Bravo. Copy 9, Bravo. Do you say that's how much at your time, no? All right, control tanker 16, Ms. Jivani, 2, Kovar, 1 o'clock rush fire. Right next to the area structure, that is the beginning part of the mailbox road. So right now we're trying to need to stand on the short grass of one of the houses. Today, copy, uh, yeah, driveway down as much as possible floor of fire coming towards your... Okay, copy that. We probably need to restore the whole other side of the mailbox road and the highway. We're trying to make a stand for me if we're going to close to the corner side. Super 8 from Captain 8. Can the engines get to your location? Can you repeat that? Can the engines get to your location? Oh, that's a negative. Can you describe where you are, so we can see if we can get resources there? Okay, yeah, we're at the coming down. Instead of having the road to the last round, or right, the second drive we on the left side. No other goals is going to firebreak is copy like that. Is it all overgrown and road is all broken up? Oh, yeah, it's the property. Okay, get residents out of there. Make a stand if you can, but if it's too dangerous, you got some big 30-foot flames headed your way, so get out of the way if it's two dangers. Okay. You go to get copy, thank you.
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Hilo, HI 96720
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