Fire spreads through cornfield involving a combine, Dubuque County IA
WildfireFire crews responded to a fire spreading in a cornfield in Dubuque County, Iowa. The fire involved a combine harvesting machine that was smoking. Multiple firefighting units, including tankers and side-by-sides, coordinated to access and contain the fire from different directions. An injury was reported near Eastside Road between Trude and Paradise on Road during the incident. The crews worked to contain the fire at various locations in the field and accessed the fire area from north and south sides.
Audio|Source: Dubuque County Fire, Dubuque City Fire and EMS
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00:00
Yeah, do you want the tanker to come out or what do you want to do?
00:07
Yeah, bring all the small trucks in the tanker.
00:12
Ten more.
00:17
Let's run off the fire ground three.
00:23
Sedge, pedic for at mercy.
00:27
Hello.
00:33
The Duke from Farley Fire. Do you put us on scene?
00:39
Go ahead.
00:45
861 from 862.
00:49
Go ahead too. Go ahead too.
00:54
There's field entrance up here. Yeah, come down to closer to the corner there by (name withheld) Streets.
01:03
We're going to go up and around the north end and get around. It's between these corn rolls.
01:10
So go over the hill by NBA Aisler's and come into the field entrance. You'll see a semi down here in a couple trucks that I've gotten us in.
01:22
Sherrill ambulance.
01:23
Injury from April Code 3, (number withheld), near Eastside Road, between Trude and Paradise on Road.
01:34
Have the combine smoking too, guys.
01:37
Tanker, stay out there in the road and we'll fill up off of you.
01:44
831 to command. We'll stay on the road.
01:47
Side by side is ahead of us on its way out.
01:53
All right, 10-4.
01:59
Command from 826.
02:05
Go ahead, 26.
02:09
Okay, I'm just coming back into town and you need more help out there.
02:14
Yeah, why don't you give a vehicle and come on out, we might need some manpower.
02:20
21 from the 822.2.
02:27
821 from 822 on 3.
02:33
Go ahead for command.
02:37
The pumpers still back at the station did not bring that. Do you want that out here or no?
02:44
Let's stick with the tanker for now and we'll see how,
02:50
well, go ahead and bring it out, Todd,
02:53
in case we need more water.
02:56
Cody, you copy that.
02:57
I'm already on my way out there. Cody, if you grab that pumper when you can out, just stage with it.
03:07
10 for I copy.
03:14
841 are you able to get on the south side of this?
03:21
What do you want me to go to, Rob?
03:32
We have the side-by-side of the south side.
03:37
10-4. I was just trying to get 862 past 841, but we're good now.
03:46
Is somebody able to access that south-west corner and to the west?
03:53
Looks like it's burning there pretty good.
03:56
To the west, there's another field there that you're going to have to get into.
04:02
The same field?
04:12
It's burning in the standing corn up to that finch line.
04:16
All right, 104, can we access it from the south and work our way into it?
04:25
Or do we have to come in from the north somehow?
04:31
Let me check with Jeff here.
04:36
Hey, we're gonna, we're, Rod, we're gonna try to get up in that standing corn with side by side.
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