Controlled burn spreads rapidly causing brush fire, Abbottstown PA
WildfireFire and emergency medical units responded to a large brush fire near Locust Lane and Jefferson Drive in Hamilton Township, Pennsylvania. The fire began as a controlled burn but spread rapidly across fields and debris areas. Units worked to contain the fire and protect nearby areas including power lines. No personal names or specific contact numbers are included.
Audio|Source: Adams County Fire and EMS - Digital
06:24
Transcript:
00:00
And Chief 33 is arriving.
00:01
I'll soon command.
00:03
Chief of Lieutenant, you want 33 to canoe to go to the other side of Locust Lane with the switch unit?
00:12
Chief, that's affirmative.
00:14
Wherever we can find entrance into this field from...
00:18
I got the seat up in here.
00:19
We're about one hundred five hundred so far.
00:25
33, we need to try to make access off Locust Lane, especially unit 33 freeing yourself is going to be a sign of that task.
00:32
Received?
00:35
Copy.
00:38
Brush 32 on the command.
00:41
We're currently sitting on Brook Road.
00:42
Do you still want us to access from Proxmedo Drive?
00:47
Negative. I think you're going to be able to make access better off Locust Lane.
00:55
32 on 23, 4 you want to be turned out.
00:58
Locusts throw off the roof.
01:02
All units respond to Locust as soon as a special unit gets there, look at you an address.
01:11
Okay.
01:16
Also, Lieutenant confirmed this is a controlled burn on down power line.
01:19
I see you some high attention then why it's going across the field.
01:27
Now I can see the source from the started pile.
01:30
It was started as a controlled burn.
01:37
Okay, I'm going to make my way around Locust.
01:43
I was fresh 32 ones in the area.
01:50
330-2001 Hamilton Township in the area near Jefferson Drive for a brush fire engine 322 222 opt to 1204 special unit to items to 171 Locust access 71 Locust to access 71 Locust for the access 1204.
02:19
Anchor 32, are you going to be able to get the other engine out? Is this Vastra? Let me get the next to him.
02:29
Okay.
02:33
Discussion in a 33 will be tired of, do we need an additional engine or do we do what we got on the scene?
02:41
Good, well we got on the state.
02:53
The main debris field, back here off the farm lane on fire, it's spreading down the fence road.
02:59
We get the other brush unit, we might tell to knock this down, we're going to hit the main power right now.
03:08
Dobby.
03:14
Tegro-321 arrive.
03:17
Tanger 32-1-126.
03:23
Tegger is 32-1.
03:24
If you come back to the farm lane, you should be able to make it almost the whole way back.
03:31
Okay, what trade you hear from the house? Up around the house or on the back side?
03:38
Go through the driveway, up to the house, make it left, and then you'll make it right down the stone out there.
03:43
You'll see it.
03:49
No, 33-2 up here on the hard road.
03:51
You want them to come back as well.
03:55
Chief, they can come back the lane so we can refill these two brush drops as they run out.
04:02
Tanker, do me as ever, pulling the field here.
04:05
Engine 33-2, full straight past the tanker and that's the brush pile that started this so it doesn't go to the right side.
04:16
Tanker 32-1.
04:20
Can you make you to the right place? Over here, right now.
04:27
Adam, if you please make you five four two two busy routine, please.
04:32
Thank you five four two two busy routine.
04:40
1208.
04:41
Special unit, rush 32 is going to go around you and get to the center of the field there, run around with the bumper sprayers to create a line.
04:54
332, get this fence line over here beside you there for the fence line catches.
05:02
Thank you 51.412121212.
05:11
We have fire.
05:14
Extend towards the Hamilton Drive section.
05:20
Yeah, we're going to work the whole outside here.
05:27
Franklin ambulance four nine is about to get us been a hospital.
05:31
Franklin ambulance four nine twelve is ten.
05:37
The ten, three zero three four.
05:38
Ten, 33,
05:39
Four.
05:44
First 32, head to the opposite side of where you're at there,
05:48
keep it from running.
05:54
Okay, we're trying to work with the whole edge here.
05:56
I think you're a special unit's over there.
06:03
Man, a special unit 33.
06:07
Okay, correct.
06:10
Confirming we have containment on that sign?
06:14
Not yet we don't.
06:16
It's head and rated especially.
06:21
T. 32.1.2. Time 334.
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Location mentioned:
Jefferson Dr, Hamilton Township, PA 17301
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