Road closures remain near Buckeye marathon route, Buckeye AZ
Emergency units held their positions near the Buckeye marathon route due to ongoing road closures and remaining runners on the course. Officials coordinated when lanes would reopen to allow units to move.
Audio|Source: Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management
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Transcript:
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Command to Marathon Units, just will hold our place.
00:03
I know we'll approach 10 o'clock for the end of the race, but we'll hold our place and I'll get the final confirmation to everybody to head back to our staging near Williamsfield when I get that from PD so everyone can just kind of hold their locations.
00:23
Well, actually, uh, Command U-U-T-251 at 252, and PDs open up the lanes, um, where you guys are at, you guys can all come back and kind of coordinate that near Williamsfield.
00:38
It's UV-252 to come in.
00:42
Go ahead, John.
00:44
Yeah, PV has the lanes north of us closed down still, and we still probably have a handful of half marathoners that made their way halfway down, maybe five minutes ago from our location.
00:59
Okay, copy.
01:00
I'll get the official word here from the OC.
01:01
You guys just hold your location as if a PV opens up any of the road by you, you can just keep staying south of the road opening, and then I'll come back to you guys here in a few minutes.
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Buckeye, AZ
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