Truck carrying shredded paper catches fire near Route 23B, Leeds NY
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Fire & ArsonA commercial truck carrying shredded paper caught fire near Route 23B in Leeds. Smoke was seen coming from the cargo area. Fire responders arrived on scene and held off opening the cargo to prevent the fire from spreading until additional engines arrived.
Audio|Heard on: Greene County Fire
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02:55
Transcript:
00:00
Leeds Fire, stand by.
00:13
Greene 911, Leeds Fire, Delta Response 5 Gateway Drive, cross street of Route 23B,
00:19
for a truck fire smoking from the cargo area full of shredded paper.
00:29
Repeating Green No-1-2 Leeds fire Delta Response 5 Gateway Drive cross-street of Route 23B for a commercial shredder truck, cargo shredded paper on fire.
00:41
Tone time 1415 dispatcher 246.
00:48
Green, Catskill, Car 1.
00:51
Green, Catskill, Car 1. Grant's on Catskill, Car 1.
00:54
Ted Stewart's at the interchange, right there.
00:59
Yes,
01:01
it's right next to it.
01:04
Very safe, Dom.
01:06
I'm on the scene smoke coming from the truck.
01:09
I'll let you know what they got.
01:11
1417.
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3-911 Leeds Car 4.
01:21
Green's on Leeds Car 4. Greens on Leeds Car 4.
01:25
Car 4 is in route.
01:28
1417.
01:31
3-0-1 leads to car 1.
01:34
Cranes-on leads, car 1.
01:37
Car 1. Car 1.
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Received in route 14-17.
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Green Cats for car 1.
01:49
Cranes on Catskill, Car 1.
01:51
The pier is they got a smoldering fire in the, uh, it's an iron mountain truck.
01:55
We're not going to open nothing up until Lee's gets here with an engine.
02:00
1418.
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Leach one, Cats go on.
02:12
Go ahead, Chief.
02:13
Go ahead, Chief.
02:14
What exactly do you have?
02:18
It's like a 14-foot box truck, paper shredder truck, shredded paper inside, it's smoking.
02:25
I'm not going to open it off, we open it up, it's going to take right off.
02:27
Wait see you guys get here.
02:30
Very, Steve, I'm on my way for the engine.
02:38
Leads one, cats, go on.
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Cut.
02:45
Chief, do you want me to stick around here and help?
02:51
If you want,
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that would be appreciated.
02:54
All right, receive.
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Co Rd 23B, Leeds, NY
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