Fire department extinguishes controlled burn after concerns, Chatham County NC


Fire crews responded to a controlled burn near Big Woods Rd and Lynn Rd after a neighbor was concerned the fire might spread. The fire was contained but unattended, so firefighters decided to extinguish it as a safety measure.
Audio|Source: Chatham County Fire
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Transcript:
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Some will be upgraded to a vegetation fire.
00:02
Collar is not unseen.
00:03
Advise, though, will be a small area of burning.
00:05
Fire is not spreading.
00:06
Collar advice, though, looks like they cut down trees and are burning same now.
00:11
Go ahead for 119.
00:12
You can probably stand by here.
00:14
I have a control line all for the past few days.
00:18
I can't copy.
00:19
Your turn.
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Lynn Road, Cross Street, Bigwood's Road and Lynn Road.
00:24
Respond emergency traffic, commutations clear in 1939.
00:27
On team.
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1711 copy.
00:29
501 are out.
00:30
161 copy.
00:31
On the lawn, can you repeat your traffic?
00:33
Wall 3-7-5 and let's stand down.
00:35
Copy. 11 will be standing down.
00:38
Copy. Twos, good.
00:39
If you want to go ahead, don't down that way, I'm not going to commit to it.
00:42
Central doll units responding to heart problems, you're responding to a 57-year-old male, conscious, not responding normally, not breathing normally,
00:50
not claiming, not changing color, color vives, that the patient does have a fiv and two stents.
00:55
Watch 2, Poppy.
00:56
29, enforcement.
00:58
Squad 311.
01:00
Go ahead.
01:02
I've got the caller with me.
01:04
She's going to direct me to the fire and just stand by that.
01:08
Just in 14, it looks like it's still under control.
01:15
1761 copy.
01:16
7. Squad 3, you monitor not.
01:18
24, sir. You can show Squad 3, 311 on the scene, control burn.
01:21
Copy.
01:22
311 step out on that path we just come up and take a look at it see what you think about bringing your truck in here
01:34
So not the same all the way first.
01:35
Yeah, two four.
01:36
It's pretty dry.
01:37
49 to 1.
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10.4.
01:39
1761 copy
01:41
Yes sir, if you would go ahead and send the 119 this way.
01:45
We've got a controlled burn.
01:46
It's not outside of the perimeter or nothing.
01:48
We've got the neighbor property wanting it put out.
01:52
She's worried about fire extension.
01:54
They've been burning over here for about three days and there's not a lot of fire at this time.
01:58
But because nobody's here with it, we'll go ahead and extinguish.
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Location mentioned:
Big Woods Rd & Lynn Rd, North Carolina 27517
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