Fire crews respond to brush fire near Hilo


Firefighters are working to control a brush fire outside Hilo, requiring multiple vehicles and water supply to manage the situation.
Audio|Source: Hawaii County Public Safety - Hamakua/North Hilo
02:20
Transcript:
Okay, copy, you can send engine 9 and if 7th, engine 17 is here as well, you can send them back. We just need off-road vehicles to bring water into us. Engine it can be a water supply out on a road. Much copy. Engine 9 and engine 17, you copy. Engine 17, you copy. Engine 19 returning. Engine 17, copy. Engine 17, returning to close. Okay, engine 17 returning. Control Engine 8 alpha-unteen. Copy engine Aalpha-on-Tine. Copy rest tonight. Fire control engine engine engine in transit for fuel. Good to Abby. C-3-6 you got up there. I should find where to stare by it. I don't know if you see all the way down the dirt road over there. I can't see anything from the main road, all the way down to the formal market. Captain 8 from Engine 8, we got Volunteer 8, their tanker out here. Do you want that to go in also? A negative Hempba, volunteer 8, Engine 8 stage all there for now, so we don't have a log van turning in. Just have 17 coming in for now. Okay, 17 went in and 9 just went in also. So keep being over here. Copy. Rush Rakeet, you're ready for water. So it's okay, ready for water. Okay, water coming. Yeah, look like you've got to go to road, you know, the post office. It's a post office road. Yeah, they're a homeless camp. Why is it a homeless camp? On that road, I think. They run parallel with Honokawa-Tail Road. Oh, okay, because he said west of the two-mile marker. Forksorometic 16, transporting to North Hawaii. medic 16 that choppy all water supply units for this brush fire company brushfire just stay out there by brush up there by brush truck 8 alpha tell us when you guys are changing over and we'll be working the fire in here happy
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Location mentioned:
Hilo, HI 96720
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