Large grass fire spreads near Dallas North Tollway, Plano TX
Fire & ArsonA large grass fire with flames about ten feet high occurred near Dallas North Tollway and President George Bush Turnpike in Plano, Texas. The fire spread toward nearby trees and was close to an apartment complex. Fire units were dispatched to control the blaze and used the President George Bush Turnpike as the main access route to the fire location.
Audio|Source: Plano Fire
04:22
Transcript:
00:00
Engine 5 from disaster.
00:06
Engine 5. Engine 5.
00:08
We're getting multiple callers on this, and PD is actually able to see flames about ten feet high, and a few of the trees on Dallas Tollway are now on fire.
00:18
Do you want me to go ahead and add a truck to this so that you have a second major apparatus?
00:26
Affirmative and a PD can let us know the best way to access it.
00:32
Proceed, it sounds like it's probably going to be on the service road, but let me ask them.
00:41
So far I have that it's President George Bush Turnpike approaching Dallas Tollway flyover, and they said it was ten-foot high flames.
00:49
I'm going to verify if there's a better way for you guys to get there, but it sounds like you might have to take President George Bush Turnpike with them.
00:58
Freezing.
01:03
45, just due to this being a larger-sized fire near the tollway, your wind speeds are going to be out of the north-northwest at two miles per hour.
01:14
We're getting a lot of callers and they're saying that it's going to be off President George Bush just past the tollway.
01:21
It's going to be right at the railroad track.
01:29
We called one of the callers back that was in the apartment complex that was adjacent to the fire.
01:36
They said that there is a fence between where the fire is and the apartment complex if you guys want to try to access it from there.
01:45
85-17.
01:49
Can you go ahead and dispatch for us 13th of us?
01:56
We should be able to access it from where you guys are in the apartment.
02:10
I'll try to figure out if we can get better access, but right now if you can get a dispatcher without us.
02:18
Receive, I've got them headed that way.
02:19
Do you want Truck 5 to meet you there, or do you want them to try and access it through Westbound President George Bush Turnpike?
02:26
Whatever they think.
02:28
Received. Truck 5, did you copy that?
02:34
Dispatch from battalion two.
02:37
Dispatch. Dispatch.
02:40
Put it on the grass fire.
02:45
This is the potential.
02:50
I'm truck five.
02:51
He wants to come to you.
02:57
They may be trying to gain access from that since.
03:01
Correction it sounds like you don't need to come to them.
03:07
Engine 5 from engine 5 novels.
03:13
Injap.
03:16
The truck will probably have better access off George Bush.
03:24
Received, truck five, did you receive that?
03:30
That's right, that's where we're headed.
03:35
Fresh Truck 13 for en route.
03:42
Engine 5, it's running engine 5-9th, oilside, Dallas, California.
03:46
Receive.
03:54
Brush truck 13, are you in rail? Just patched.
03:58
Brush 13 and brush 65 will be in route.
04:01
Receive engine 13.
04:07
Do you want brush 13 and brush 65 to access this from President George Bush Turnpike Westbound, or do you want them to come through the apartment complex?
04:19
We're saying George Bush is going to be a better access point.
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Dallas North Tollway, Plano, TX
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