Brush fire erupts near recycling facility in Franklin County, Franklinton NC
Fire & ArsonBrush fire near a recycling facility in Franklin County sparks a quick response, which has multiple brush trucks and forestry units working to contain the flames with excavators assisting.
Audio|Source: Franklin County Public Safety
04:27
Transcript:
00:00
Brush 148, Engine 141 is arriving.
00:02
You don't give us an ops channel? We have a brush fire back in the woods.
00:09
Temporal brush, 141, Engine 141 on scene.
00:12
Preliminary brush fire.
00:13
Hiflon up three, star up three.
00:19
That was a little battalion before, we're getting right.
00:23
Time to en route.
00:26
Hunter.
00:32
Central from Command.
00:34
Go ahead and send me an additional brush truck to this location.
00:38
Temple.
00:47
The Century Youngfield Fire Department, NU14141's on scene,
00:51
smoke investigation, near U.S. 1 Highway, Franklin County,
00:56
on scene of the brush fire, request another brush truck, Central Clear.
01:04
Central, you can show Forestry 1 en route.
01:08
Forestry one around.
01:13
Those are brush 248 will be in round.
01:17
Brush 248 in round.
01:19
All right, Central, 148 is standing in the fire.
01:26
We've got a boltball on fire.
01:27
You'll be on a hole with Station 1's engine and two brush trucks.
01:35
Please throw on tabergers.
01:38
Good night, Forests are out here.
01:44
All right.
01:48
Your own theme?
01:51
Yes, ma'am.
01:56
Um, Forest you one.
01:59
Forest, you one? Go ahead.
02:02
Did the caller advise they worked where that fire is?
02:11
The caller is an employee, but she was not on scene.
02:14
She got an additional call from another employee passing by.
02:20
If you can try to make contact with that original caller and see if we can get somebody from that company out there.
02:31
Temple, you can have them give you a call.
02:36
Just, if you can reach out and see if they can give us a point of contact, you can put the number in the cat.
02:42
Temple. One forty one, have y'all been able to make entries back here yet?
02:51
Negative. No water on.
02:55
And for whatever you do, just pull up here and pull around, mark this truck on the west side of this.
03:00
We might use your dead gun to get the top side.
03:04
Chalb it up.
03:11
Brush 248, so on, I'm screw.
03:22
Thank you. Just so all on the same page, it's going to be at the recycling facility, correct?
03:32
That's not right there, Worcester.
03:36
You got me that.
03:37
Are you guys going to need a piece of machinery to stir that pile up to get it out?
03:42
Probably, they got a couple of excavators out here, just get somebody to run it.
03:48
It's pretty much contained right now and trying to get it knocked down for what we can right here.
03:57
One of your guys have a cat key or anything like that?
04:04
Not sure about that.
04:08
Yeah, I'll reach out to this reporting party and I got a guy with a cat key.
04:14
I'll make a phone call.
04:17
Yeah, well, I don't know how flexible needs that.
04:19
It does look like it's only top of the surface burning.
04:22
I'd get them coming anyway.
04:25
I got the gate open now.
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