Structural fire contained near Refugee Road and Alum Creek, Columbus OH
Fire & ArsonFire crews are actively responding to a structural fire near Refugee Road and Alum Creek Drive in Columbus, Ohio. The fire is currently contained but firefighters expect to remain on scene for several more hours. Several road closures are in place to support emergency operations, including southbound Alum Creek Drive. Traffic is being managed with some ramps shut down or open depending on operational needs. Emergency vehicles are staged along Refugee Road and surrounding areas to manage the firefighting efforts. No personal names or sensitive location details are disclosed for privacy protection.
Audio|Source: Franklin County Events
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the off ramp from 104 to Refugee.
00:03
He wants to come down performance to where you're at.
00:06
Can he come down this way or do you want him to go another direction to get to where you are?
00:11
He can come down here.
00:12
All the media set up on this private lane.
00:17
Wait a minute.
00:18
Where's he at, Blueball?
00:22
He's at 104 in performance.
00:27
Yeah, he's going to have to go back south and work his way around,
00:31
back west, to come up north on Fairwood to get the refugee.
00:35
So tell him he's probably going to have to go back down Allen Creek to probably Williams, Williams to come up, probably Lockbourne and get over to Fairwood to get the refugee or Lockburn and the refugee.
00:51
He already went live.
00:53
Mike should go. So, Mike, do you see him yet?
00:56
I won't let anybody else come that direction.
00:57
I'll just stay down here.
01:00
Well, if you really want my opinion, there's no reason to shut this road down.
01:05
Because there's no imminent risk of the fire near the road.
01:10
But that's just me.
01:13
Well, it's going to be up to whoever that's a commander of fire is.
01:16
They're the ones that wanted to shut down.
01:23
Last time it's this thing for long, they brought more and more trucks in and they staged them all along refugee there.
01:28
Box 15 also will be coming in, they have two trucks coming in also.
01:33
They'll stage probably right along refugee.
01:38
Hey, this ramp coming off 104,
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there's people coming in off of here.
01:43
Do we want this ramp shutdowns there at 104?
01:49
It already was shut off, I don't know how they're getting cars into here.
01:55
6.30 is down there.
01:56
I don't know.
01:57
The westbound.
01:58
You're talking about the eastbound?
02:01
Mark, he's talking to eastbound side where it's in the performance way.
02:05
Probably if they want it shut down,
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because performance way is a dead end, they're going to have to shut the eastbound ramp down.
02:12
Disregard that.
02:13
It is shut down.
02:14
It was a state vehicle that they let through here.
02:18
Disregard that.
02:20
Eastbound is open.
02:21
The performance comes out here to Allen Creek.
02:24
So the eastbound ramp was left open the last time, so no, that will stay open.
02:32
From Westbound 104 getting off right here, they got it shut down, but they were letting the state vehicle through.
02:39
So disregard everything I said.
02:42
Yeah, westbound shut down, because if they started staging trucks along refugee, that got to be a real mess early on last time.
02:54
There's nothing else needed on the east side.
02:56
There's two cruises over here on Island Creek.
02:59
I'll be one of them.
03:07
668-603
03:10
Hey Mike, is a fire still raising and is still burning?
03:15
Smoke, I mean,
03:16
I don't know, I got city turrets here.
03:21
I don't know, all these cars are just piling up down here.
03:24
Yeah, where do you get them turned?
03:29
Mike, if we get too bad and we've got to go back to Freibus, the problem is you're going to have to screen everything coming eastbound on a refugee at Fairwood.
03:40
If it's either Fairwood or I think Johnny Ball City were originally back at Freibus.
03:50
I move that to Winslow and Island Creek.
03:53
We're just north, I'm sorry,
03:56
south of the fire.
04:00
Fairwood, Mike, Fairwood and Refugee.
04:05
Switch 5-9 Radio, you have two EPA that just came into the scene.
04:09
They're heading northbound on Allen.
04:11
Grieved at the scene.
04:15
I can't copy that.
04:25
You want me to help shutdown? 6.30 has the ramp.
04:31
It turns up here at Performance and Alam Creek, so they're starting to set up the pattern here now, so I think we're pretty good.
04:43
Mike, how much traffic do you have backed up with you?
04:47
I got some big semis that are following up there.
04:51
The problem is everybody needs to be passed me.
04:54
So I have to truck walking up here and then we have to talk about it.
05:00
All right.
05:04
Get back to Fairwood, the same thing is going to happen at Fairwood.
05:07
The only problem is you got a lot between you back west of you at Fairwood.
05:14
A city turt where you're at and you go back to Fairwood, you're just going to have to screen everything back at Fairwood.
05:22
What is the other one here is? I mean, if they're going to come down here, they're going to come down here.
05:34
That's 12 draft one.
05:41
All right, talking to fire.
05:43
All they're concerned with is shutting down Allum Creek southbound.
05:48
They have the fire pretty much contained,
05:50
but they're going to be out here for a couple hours.
05:53
So all they need is southbound Arlen Creek shut down.
06:02
Do they have any equipment in the northbound lanes?
06:07
There's no equipment in northbound lanes.
06:10
They said they have no equipment on Refugee Road either.
06:14
So we can open up Refugee and open up Allum Creek northbound.
06:19
It's just southbound they want to stay shut.
06:23
All right, good.
06:24
You hear that, Mike?
06:26
Yep, we'll come up to Alam Creek.
06:31
What about the ramp from 104 West to Refugee Allum Creek? We want that open?
06:41
Yeah, then you're going to, somebody's not have to work the intersection of Aller Creek and Refugee, so.
06:47
Well, I mean, they'll still be able to go northbound, so nobody will have to work that.
06:52
Just have a post up at Winslow and Allen Creek, so yeah, you can probably open a ramp.
06:57
Okay, 630, I copy that.
07:04
6-8 Radio, are you back here?
07:07
Hey, Frum.
07:10
Do you call the city refuse people until they can now come through here on Refugee? On Refugee.
07:18
I have to all right.
07:26
Hey guys, who's up at Winslow and Allen Creek right now?
07:31
660. All right, hey,
07:37
you want Mike up there with you? You guys just take the first rotation.
07:42
And then we'll get relief.
07:45
Hopefully it's not going to be.
07:46
It's at a couple of hours.
07:48
Yeah,
07:49
if you want City Turn up there with you also,
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they can move up to help you.
07:54
Yeah, that's probably good.
07:55
We've got five lanes here we're trying to shut off.
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Alum Creek Dr & Refugee Rd, Columbus, OH 43207
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