Brush fire along I-20 near Merkel being contained

Heard on: Taylor County Fire and EMS Departments

01:53

00:00

Hey, we need water pretty quick.

00:01

Could you come back down to Dunnington on the south access road? You'll see where we're working.

00:13

Go ahead.

00:22

This fire along I 20 is going to be pretty much knocked out.

00:25

Do you need us elsewhere?

00:28

Negative. What we're trying to do is get them to no smoke conditions so the calls will quit coming in.

00:51

And we should be good.

00:59

Command, we're receiving another call.

01:02

Refer to fire at 1162 eastbound side.

01:05

1162 eastbound.

01:09

Okay, copy 262.

01:11

Trap brush.

01:13

Uh, Marshall command.

01:16

Go ahead. Yeah, I heard.

01:18

We'll head that way as soon as we get this one kind of knocked down a little bit.

01:23

Copy that.

01:30

So head back that direction.

01:33

We're right here at Don Juan, just popping up.

01:39

Yeah, the one in the middle, I was gonna take some extra work.

01:42

It's got a lot of smoke still.

01:48

Copy that. We'll get water and we'll head your way shortly.

01:52

Copy that.

2026-09-10 11:53 UTC

Wildfire

1-20 S Access Rd i, Merkel, TX 79536

Brush fire along I-20 near Merkel being contained

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Brush fire along I-20 near Merkel being contained

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