Slow-moving wildfire burns pine trees near Long Spur Rd, Jefferson County AR
WildfireA slow-moving wildfire is burning through pine trees and underbrush near Long Spur Road and the Rhone Hunting Club. Fire crews are monitoring the fire and forestry has been contacted to send equipment. Changing wind conditions could cause the fire to spread across roads and worsen. The fire currently covers about 5 to 10 acres.
Audio|Source: Watson Chapel Fire Dept
04:29
Transcript:
00:00
Twenty-three you get close.
00:05
I'm going to fire with the guy, fixing him, trying to get cross-road here with him.
00:10
Got.
00:15
Two to twenty-three, just let me know something when you find out what's going on.
00:20
One's out of pocket, so he won't be there with you.
00:25
All right, yeah, I'm just at the way down the bone spur here.
00:29
I see the smoke way up there.
00:31
Looks like it might be burning a little slow, it's not putting up much, but I'll see what we got here in just a second.
00:38
Copy.
00:41
But on the other hand, it is all fine plantations, so if we get a little wind behind it, we're going to have a problem.
00:47
I just looked at the updated conditions when they updated at noon.
00:52
The wind's now southeast at 4. Humidity dropped a little bit to 40 now, but it seems like the wind's decreasing.
01:03
At least it's at the ground or field, what's the wind done down your way there?
01:07
All right, I'm on the scene here.
01:09
Get out and see how many acres we've got. I don't think I'm going to do nothing with it now.
01:16
Top. Yeah,
01:24
I'm going to keep it going to jump in the road here. It's burning real slow, but it's all pine plantation and it's all underbrush, but we get in a little bit of wind behind it, get a little fuel going to have a problem.
01:37
All right,
01:38
the official request for Fort Street is it still need to go through their dispatch.
01:44
Not that I know that, let me call it Brian real quick.
01:46
Yeah, we ain't gonna be able to do nothing with it, except keep it off the road here.
01:51
All right, I don't know who else we got around today now, but you need some help.
01:59
It depends on this wind starts blowing.
02:03
Yeah, I mean,
02:05
I can find out that information, let me get on the phone with the weather service and see.
02:15
Let me know if I need to call their dispatch or not.
02:19
I will if I need to.
02:24
Go ahead.
02:27
He got off the phone with 141, he's going to see in Cleveland County up here and he's heading out here himself.
02:33
It's just burning through the grass right now, but we get a little windbine up with my problem. It's about a 10-year-old pine plantation.
02:41
How many acres is? Can't tell?
02:46
I don't know. This one here, yeah, this right here is probably 5, 6 acres and this ain't in the hot spot. The other hot spots, probably 5, 10 acres over down the road here.
02:55
All right, but you don't need anybody else from us right now. I'm going to go and have mecca keep times for us, so it'll be sent out on our phones anyway, just in case it turns in something.
03:07
Yeah, definitely make an incident for it.
03:09
If 25 ain't doing nothing, he can ease down here, I mean, he ain't doing nothing but trying to keep it from jumping the roads here.
03:17
That'd be 24.
03:23
Pardon it, 24.
03:27
24, do you copy?
03:30
I copy. I heard him discriminating my number.
03:38
I just code 1.
03:40
If they can get down there with him.
03:45
10, 4. I'll have to wait when I can.
03:54
402A.
03:58
Go ahead, 6414.
04:02
Can you create an incident to show us out on the Wood's Fire, Long Spur Road at the Rhone Hunting Club?
04:09
We've already been in contact with Forestry.
04:13
They're going to send the plow out.
04:16
We're out doing what we can do with it.
04:21
For what was the street?
04:24
Rome Spur Road off of Highway 79 South, I don't know if it's going to be in the cat or not.
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Rone, AR 71603
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