Brush Fire Spreading Near Old Route 13 in Carterville, Carterville IL


A brush fire is burning in a thick vegetation area near Old Route 13 in Carterville. Firefighters arrived with trucks and equipment. The fire is spreading west, and a general alarm has been issued. U.S. Fish and Wildlife services are involved in the response.
Audio|Source: Franklin, Perry, Jackson, Williamson, and Jefferson Counties Police, Fire and EMS
04:18
Transcript:
00:00
Six trees and brush just burning in.
00:04
Yeah, I'll hook it up the car, though.
00:11
Dickline, next 26, secure, and location up there.
00:15
All right, I'm gonna see how far over to the west again.
00:24
53 pangs are ramped marion 33 paces ramped marion
00:32
361
00:35
garrison is counting on a bunch of bunch of brush fires that what i'm hearing
00:40
mclair i was playing huge as on a structure fire
00:47
Received.
00:48
It goes pretty good way to the west over here in this thick brush.
00:55
Okay.
01:04
Where are you at? I'll meet up with you.
01:18
I turn to the belief car and I'm way down a real narrow gravel road. I don't think you should come down here.
01:27
Yeah, we're stopped in the engine right at the peace.
01:30
I've got Morgan with me. I'm going to get him an Indian hack and send him your direction.
01:39
It's not going to work. The brush is too big.
01:44
Harry's got to get here, right?
01:48
Yeah.
01:52
Dispatch Carterville Car 1.
01:55
Point on.
01:59
Can you tell you about Herrin to mutual aid this brush fire with the brush trekking gator?
02:06
249 just one.
02:17
Try that. Three and a half.
02:19
You have a 243, please?
02:23
Ten, four, any round?
02:26
One.
02:27
Two.
02:32
A truck and a gator at near Old Rte 13, south of this address.
02:39
We're in a PD time, out 1411.
02:46
Do you have further tracked?
02:51
Can you retone us again at General alarm, please?
02:57
104 and here, but he's also been toned out, or I'm sorry, hearing empty.
03:25
General Fire. General Fire notification.
03:29
Timeout, Mary, P.
03:30
1412.
03:34
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Fire.
03:39
Not, 89.
03:44
What I can see, I don't even know if we're really going to be able to get most mostly on fire, keep looking at the gate.
03:53
Well,
03:55
the good news is on the west end of the fire,
03:57
there's a gravel road that could probably act as a fire break as long as we're staged on it.
04:11
After a trailer, black smoke coming from with a cat.
04:15
Scratch that email form. Larry is this back from.
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Near Old Rte 13, Carterville, IL 62918
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