Rapidly moving grass fire reported near Slaughterhouse Road


Audio|Source: Hawaii County Public Safety - Hamakua/North Hilo
02:7
Transcript:
Check correction on that is (name withheld) of the highway. It's going to be the helo side of the transfer station by Old Mill Road. Control from Captain 8. We've got large volumes of smoke below Highway 19. Look like this is up a slaughterhouse road. Break, Medicaid, can you guys go down Millbox Road and make sure it's not down below that area? Control, that's from half an 8. Control, it looks like we have a working grass fire, unable to obtain how big it is at this time. Looks like maybe two or three acres. Can you dispatch chopper one? Sure, copy. Chopper 1, Response for Brushfire, Highway 19, I have the 3-7 Mall Marker. Chopper 1, Response for Brushfire. Highway 18, area of the 37 mile marker, 10-1444. Okay, they're now going to be deploying... It's about no size of a football field and due to the wind it's moving kind of fast because it's really dry. Go from 3-3-1. I can see the smoke from about the 41 mile marker. It looks pretty substantial. I'll be responding code 3. Never. Captain A from Brush Arcade Alpha. Okay. Should I go down below on Slaughterhouse Road? That's affirmative. We are almost on scene and I can give you a better assessment of where we're going to position up right us. But you can start coming down Slaughterhouse Road.
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Location mentioned:
Slaughterhouse Rd, Keaau, HI 96749
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