Grass fire near runway at Malden Regional Airport
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Dunklin County Public Safety
03:51
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00:00
Unit 2 is coming down Airport Road.
00:03
Copy. Come to the old runway, old runway.
00:09
10-4.
00:11
Oh, come to the old runway,
00:15
Charlie. I'm in my personal truck and you're gonna follow me.
00:22
That's on where you're at, but I've got tanker nine fixing to come back over there.
00:28
Okay, I'm right here on the taxiway between the two runways, right behind the airstrip.
00:36
Yeah,
00:37
I'm gonna send tanker nine back over there.
00:39
They're still full.
00:41
I'm gonna take tanker two and finish this over here.
00:44
We've pretty well got it knocked down from the.
00:53
What we needed to protect.
00:56
10-4, we've got some runway lights over here that this is threatening.
00:59
We're about out of water cans, or we are out of water cans.
01:04
They're rolling up their hose, they'll be there in just a 2nd .
01:07
Copy.
01:08
We've called a backhoe for the fire on Bradley Street to knock the other structure in.
01:17
Tanker two is on scene, airport.
01:19
100, where do you want me at?
01:22
Right in front of you here.
01:23
Just follow me when you get down here.
01:27
10-4.
01:33
East runway.
01:40
At the head of that, I'm gonna park up here out of the way.
01:43
20, (name withheld).
01:47
10-4, 932.
01:53
101, your backhoe's on scene.
02:00
Guys can start knocking it out here.
02:03
I'll cut back to the south and we can stay ahead of it.
02:07
Okay.
02:12
Put this grass down right here.
02:15
So this fire burning towards the runway will burn itself out.
02:23
Ignite that, (name withheld).
02:25
It's cut out in this truck.
02:27
Okay, if he can wet this stuff over here down, the fire will just burn itself out as it comes up to this runway and it won't go farther north.
02:36
So then we can start working it.
02:42
Four 0932 .
02:49
We've got a ditch about 20 yards over there.
02:55
Yeah, I can't see much through the smoke here.
02:58
(name withheld) did say if you go north another 30 to 40 yards, this little ditch here between the runway and the golf course, 10s out, we should be able to get over there in between the two.
03:10
Okay, we're gonna have to get over there.
03:12
It's gonna get away from us where we can't get in it.
03:15
We need to get into the burn section as quick as we can.
03:17
Start
03:23
moving this grass towards the runways and left out.
03:45
Hold on right there, (name withheld).
03:47
Let them roll that hose up and ride the tailboard to work the fire out.
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