Wildfire active on Gales Creek Road with fire crews, Washington County OR
WildfireAn active wildfire on Gales Creek Road, Oregon, is producing smoke and embers. Fire crews are working to contain and overhaul the fire, which threatens power poles. Heavy equipment is being used to construct fire lines and monitor hotspots for safety and containment.
Audio|Source: Washington County Fire and EMS
08:27
Transcript:
00:00
We've got enough smoke up in the air with some pretty good drift off to that southwest side.
00:05
We get that drone pointed that way and let's just look for opportunities for ember fall.
00:11
If we've got any ember cat going out there, I'd like to see about it now, whether than see you here in a couple hours.
00:20
Good man, 418.
00:23
Yeah, 418.
00:27
Looks like we got forward progress stopped on the northwest corner.
00:35
Okay, forward progress stopped on the southwest corner on the front of this fire.
00:44
It's the northwest, it's pushing right now, a lot of power pole.
00:49
Okay, next to the power poles, thank you.
00:53
Command 10, Brush 15, arrived.
00:59
Brush 15, go ahead and enter the field.
01:01
I'm going to have you guys start working that track, sir.
01:05
Command, Brut 86.
01:10
Rush 86. Rush 86.
01:15
Jeff, if we've met up with 418.
01:21
dispatch.
01:24
We'll add in with 418.
01:27
Let's get to go in and continue in a clockwise pattern here.
01:31
So once you've made your way, get past them, and let's have you come back down the power pole road or the line there, and meet your way back towards the north.
01:41
And let's just make sure we've got a good line all the way around this, and then we'll start working out there.
01:51
Squad 70 copies canceled.
01:53
Thank you.
01:59
C4, come on.
02:02
Is it you on Gales Creek Road?
02:05
Yes, I'm all the way down on the west side of this up on the road.
02:09
Copy.
02:17
6-6-Aamer-119, stage for police on a behavioral health issue 736-0-158 place.
02:24
Caller's mother has been showing increasingly paranoid ideation at DOVs in 79.
02:32
She also has been expressing suicidal ideation, and on last visit, found some booby traps in her mother's house.
02:42
He's known to have make-ship weapons, including axes and kitchen knives.
02:48
It does not look like police are en route yet.
02:54
I'm not going to...
03:00
Six-six copies.
03:04
Oh, no way, go ahead.
03:07
We're going to the shift call on Brennan Lane coming from Ilipar Station 3.
03:12
Cover him?
03:16
Engine 1, AMR[1] 151, go to 860 for South Magnolia Street, 32 real female conscious breathing normally, has been without nourishment for several days, uses a tube feeding,
03:28
callers their provider and not at the location.
03:31
They are still speaking of following commands.
03:33
They do have an awesomy bag, a J-tube TPN line.
03:37
No known infections, has had a fever off and on.
03:41
No further.
03:45
Andrew McAfee, you back.
03:49
I have one, copies.
03:52
One three going to bring a problem at 1-140-suffles Walnut Street.
03:59
78-year-old male.
04:06
Is conscious O2 stats are very low.
04:09
It says 56.
04:10
I'm not sure about that.
04:11
It is conscious still and speaking in full sentences.
04:15
He does have blue lips, his face is pale, has a history of COPD.
04:19
Go further.
04:23
That's correct.
04:24
And you can go ahead and benchmark.
04:26
We have a forward progress on this fire has been stopped.
04:29
All units on scene here are going to be working.
04:31
We've got some overall here to do.
04:37
5-1 Northeast Brennan Lane.
04:39
Eighty-nine-year-old male is conscious, has low blood pressure,
04:44
shortness of breath off and on.
04:46
Dr. Watson's seen at Kaiser West.
04:51
Front Compromise U5-4.
04:56
We're good.
05:01
You can take the Kinjin 5-2 off the medical on.
05:07
Yeah,
05:11
when you can, can you go ahead and bed the drone and let's relocate you to the south flank of this fire and the unburned with C8.
05:22
I was talking to the property owner of the field that you're right in front of and he says we can get a disk if we need it.
05:30
I think that that's going to be a better option.
05:33
I had a gentleman just to show up that says he's a dozer operator and can nose this, but I think a disc is going to serve us better.
05:39
If he wants to cut a line all the way around this, that's going to probably make this better for monitoring this evening.
05:48
Move up to station where hills for a name.
05:54
Six sounds good.
05:56
You can make your way up to the top tie-in with Watertender 14 on the road.
05:59
Thank you.
06:05
Command, DR418.
06:08
14, command.
06:11
At these power poles that are involved on the northeast corner, they look safe to engage.
06:18
Now that we don't have a bunch of other fire to deal with, you okay with me overhauling this?
06:24
Are we able to stay out from directly underneath of the poles out of the lines just in case?
06:32
That is a firm.
06:36
Okay, then yes, go ahead and engage that.
06:40
Copy, thank you.
06:44
Command, engine 17.
06:50
17, go ahead.
06:54
Engine 17 with a thousand gallon water and brush the 17 arriving.
07:01
Excellent. Are you coming in from the east or left?
07:06
Coming in from...
07:09
The North.
07:12
Okay.
07:17
Rush 30 copies.
07:20
Engine 666 and AMR[1] 119, police have decided to downgrade their call to a welfare check, and you can clear.
07:32
Okay, real good.
07:34
I'll get out of the way here.
07:35
You guys can go ahead and come up past me.
07:38
You'll enter the field up here on the right.
07:43
You'll see a brush right there on the corner, brush 816.
07:46
Go ahead and enter the field there to start working clockwise around the field.
07:52
And as you see hotspots there in the field, go ahead and take those opportunities.
07:57
The goal is just overhaul work now.
08:05
Copy. Do you want the engine to remain for water supply or do you want us both mobile?
08:13
Yeah, we can just actually leave the engine up here on the road.
08:15
I don't know if you need to commit it.
08:17
Let's just put the brush rig down in there.
08:23
Do you want to tender 40.
08:24
What we make the next pass for internal?
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Gales Creek Rd, Oregon 97116
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