Smoke report closed after no fire found on train, San Bernardino County CA
Fire & ArsonFire units responded to a possible train fire near Farmington Road in Victor Valley. After investigating, crews found no smoke or visible fire on the train. Access to the site was challenging, but no fire was confirmed.
Audio|Source: San Bernardino County Fire - High Desert
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Transcript:
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I'm going to take a look at the map and see if I can find some access from the north.
00:03
Just confirming your location there's no access at all.
00:11
We'll go a little further to check it out, but it's looking like, because we already have to cross one set of train tracks and then go up the hill a little ways.
00:18
Still not seeing any smoke or anything on the train, but we will check out about 10% of it probably.
00:29
149 comes here?
00:33
Go ahead.
00:34
Union Pacific advises traffic in the area is stopped and the train was traveling southbound.
00:47
I copy, traffic has stopped, you broke on your last, can repeat.
00:53
The train in question that was on fire is traveling southbound.
00:59
Okay, I copy.
01:01
We do have units in the area.
01:03
They have found the train that is stopped and they're looking for a car and access right now with nothing showing.
01:11
We're going to have access issues.
01:13
If you can have the responding Union Pacific Rep, get their cell phone and put in the notes for me, please.
01:23
I copy. I copy.
01:26
Tom, Senator, engine, 14, once you're responding.
01:35
Okay, 149, but 1035, 12.
01:41
Go ahead. Go ahead.
01:43
Okay,
01:44
just for information, I'm in 138 just past 15.
01:48
I got nothing visible at this end covered, so that's probably that stop train you're talking about.
01:54
I do have three engines in or out if four-wheel drive access is necessary.
02:01
Okay, I copy.
02:02
Yeah, I'm going to keep them coming.
02:04
Are all of your engines able to monitor tax?
02:08
And are all of your engines able to monitor tax?
02:11
I'll make sure that they're on the tax, Bay 100, so I hear and everything.
02:20
Okay, I copy.
02:21
I'm off the Valley Road.
02:22
I'm going to get to the plotted location and about fire.
02:26
If you want to come meet me there and we can start getting a game plan, my engines have never been sterling so far.
02:35
Yeah, I copy. See you in a minute.
02:37
Battalion 149, 3563.
02:44
Go ahead.
02:47
Hey,
02:51
just for information, we took Farmington to the east and we've tied in with the stop drain attempting to make access.
02:59
Coming in from the tail,
03:01
we're paralleling the tracks on a dirt road.
03:08
Okay, that's perfect.
03:09
Yeah, if you come across the crew,
03:11
their policy might be that they need to stay in the train, but if you do face to face with anybody, just let me know what you find out.
03:17
And if you can identify if any of the cars are on fire.
03:25
Yeah,
03:27
we've got eyes on about 90% of the train.
03:29
No smoke visible.
03:31
We do have good access off of Farmington so far.
03:40
for a cell phone for the Union Pacific Northwest.
03:45
I caught me, I got it.
03:51
149, 612.
03:56
Go ahead.
03:59
There's a little turnout over where we are.
04:02
It's a little too steep on the section we came up, but the road just to the north.
04:06
I think you might be able to make access in your SUV to the caboose of the train.
04:13
Okay,
04:16
I copy. I'll be at your location in about two minutes.
04:24
The 149 mega into 2.
04:26
We're just going to stage out here on some of the valley.
04:32
And 149.3553.
04:38
Go ahead.
04:42
And for info, I've made contact with the train here,
04:46
paralleling Farmington.
04:48
He's advising me that the train is in front of him about a mile south of this location.
05:02
I copy him one mile south.
05:09
Battalion 3512 B 149.
05:14
Go ahead.
05:20
I've got your icon on Tablet Command.
05:22
It looks like you're in that area.
05:25
That train that you're originally were talking about, be able to check that stop train and see if you can check in with the crew.
05:31
It sounds like that might be the train that called in.
05:38
Copy, I'll walk my way in there.
05:40
Of course, it's at a cut bank that we can't access, so let me see if I can make my way up by foot.
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Location mentioned:
Farmington Rd, California 93516
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