Crews investigate reported wildfire smoke near Piercy
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CalFire - Mendocino County & MEU
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Fire force engine 1174 in the area,
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attempting to locate.
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Engine 1174 in the area, 1022.
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Chief 5701, engine 1174, command 8.
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Go ahead.
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Hey, I'm headed up Red Mountain Road.
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Detail at this time, do you want to check McCoy Creek?
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Copy, just getting off exit now.
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Checking McCoy Creek road.
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1174,
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5665, on command.
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1174.
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Hey, we're almost to the top of Red Mountain.
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Nothing located yet.
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All right, copy.
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We'll get turned around.
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Chief 5701, engine 5769.
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Go ahead.
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We're in the area.
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You want us to stage at the top of McCoy?
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Yeah, go ahead and stage at the bottom of McCoy Creek Road.
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I'm gonna go up it right now.
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Copy.
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Fire force, fire force, copy.
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Six one two is responding to the red incident.
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ETA
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ten forty-eight.
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Fire force, copy.
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Two two, fire force, copy.
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Positive AFS ten twenty-eight.
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1174, 1164, command 8.
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74.
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Hey, we've gone down the 271 parallels north with the highway.
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I haven't seen anything here.
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Where you guys at?
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Yeah, we took the South Piercy exit, doubled back to Bear Pen Road.
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I haven't gone up Bear
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Pen Road yet, so I want to get committed.
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Six four, copy.
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1174, 25701 on command 8.
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1174.
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Nothing showing at this time.
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Continuing up the road, there is some haze in the air in the valley that I can see.
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I'm going to continue searching.
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This road's pretty tight.
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Let's keep everybody staged at the bottom of the road for now.
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Yeah, I concur with the haze smoke in the south of the valley.
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I was going to go up Bear Pen, check up that way since that's where the haze is coming from.
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Copy that.
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1174 5665.
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1174.
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Okay, we definitely saw smoke up here at the top of Red Mountain.
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Unable to locate any columns.
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We did definitely see a column from the Piercy exit.
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Confirming you were able to see a column from the Piercy exit?
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Affirm.
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Yeah, what direction?
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The plume was south of the Piercy exit.
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If you're on the Piercy exit, you can see it.
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Exit 627.
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Yeah, I'm not seeing anything concrete on the west side of the river.
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I'm gonna go up Pearson.
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Copy, I'm heading back down to Red Mountain now.
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