Brush fire reported under eastbound I-90 near 12th Ave S, Seattle WA
Fire & ArsonFirefighters responded to a brush fire underneath the eastbound lanes of I-90 near 12th Avenue South in Seattle. Heavy smoke was reported, and crews had difficulty locating the fire due to limited access. Firefighters planned to use ladders to reach the fire because of the challenging terrain under the freeway.
Audio|Source: Seattle Fire
07:35
Transcript:
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Engine 191 from Safety 2
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Safety 2 We got an engine 6 in the time to Do you want an additional engine or truck
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Negative, I think with the 2 and 1 we should be fine for right now I'll advise once they get that location
00:27
Both I saw an additional engine from Rush around getting on the freeway as well.
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52.
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The Tallinn-191 from Safety 2.
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Engine 6, Fresh Fire, West 990 right here.
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C.G 6 with 990 right here.
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We've got a Mercer Island crew headed out that direction.
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Injun 13 and safety two are also headed out to Mercer Island and coming back around.
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This is said to be a brushfire.
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Underneath the eastbound land of I-90, east of the 12 south bridge,
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accessed from the westbound I-90.
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The time in 199 is on I-90, that's down at 2 feet.
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We've got heavy smoke, unable to locate.
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The time 991 at.
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Heavy smoke, unable to locate.
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Battalion 191 from Safety 2.
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Go ahead.
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I'm parked just to the east of you right now on the curb.
02:04
We've got two engines and a chief officer coming as well. I'm looking over here on the north side when my buggy's parked over here in this where we're seeing a lot of smoke.
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I'm going to get out and try to take a look right now.
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Safety2 finding six.
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You want to do six to conduct I-99?
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Affirmative.
02:32
I'm going to tie up in the ground there.
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I'm going to mention this to your phone.
02:42
Safety people would call in two, what's our best access to your location?
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You're going to go over a motion around and turn around, come back heading westbound on 990.
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Is that you okay?
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The time, 191 from safety community want to take command?
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Affirmative.
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Okay. We'll go ahead and establish an equity command.
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They're trying to locate the fire at this time.
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All the Cial units, done safety to,
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the incident command of the time. The incident command is the Pine-191 on the east side fire and rescue. That's what we're talking to.
03:40
The battalion 191 from Deputy Juan, Seattle Fire. I'm up above on the 12th Avenue South Bridge.
03:46
The origin of the fire looks like it's on the south side of the eastbound lanes of I-90.
04:02
Copy that's the south side of the eastbound lane.
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We'll wrap around and come back.
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That's negative. You won't be able to access it from the eastbound lanes. You're going to have to go up and under.
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Copy, under.
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Under digger.
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Deputy Juan from Seattle Fire, are you, uh, I-90 command?
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May for an exit two command.
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Down I-90.
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Okay, Battalion, 191 is exit to command.
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Go ahead, taking.
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Well, I can see you up there,
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and you're saying that we need to access this on the south side of the I-90-U-com lanes.
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That's affirmative.
05:22
The fire is under the east-down lane, so you're going to have to get under the freeway, the other path.
05:37
Safety Pee One, there is no access from the eastbound lanes. You're going to have to get it from those lower westbound lanes.
05:48
Yeah, there is no access here. This is all a concrete wall.
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I'd have to look at dropping a ladder and getting down from the eastbound lanes then.
06:06
Okay, I want to take a look at that real quick. 8-2, 811 Eastlake Avenue.
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That we'd be able to get this from, before we connect to I-90.
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It's negative. You're going to have to have ladders to get down to it. There's no access from the westbound lanes and it's a sense and a significant drop from the eastbound lane.
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There is no level access.
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Battalion 2 from Safety 2, Top to Exit 2 command,
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which is Battalion 1991.
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There's going to have you stock up at that gorepoint right there, so we've figured out what's going on before we just had units going everywhere.
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Battalion 2, okay,
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do we have a need for a ladder for ladder 5 operations?
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I'm going to head onto the eastbound back up there and take a look.
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12th Ave S, Seattle, WA
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