Fire crews battle brush fire on Saddleback Rd, Greene County VA
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Fire & ArsonAs discussed during the dispatch call, multiple fire departments responded to a brush fire on Saddleback Road in Virginia. Fire crews from Greene, Madison, and Barboursville worked together to establish water supply and coordinate manpower to contain the fire. Units operated along wooded terrain and power lines, indicating possible challenges with access and water delivery. The situation involved coordinated response with engines, brush trucks, and tankers, and appeared to be an active effort to suppress the fire with multiple agencies assisting.
Audio|Heard on: Greene VA Fire Dispatch Group Calls
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04:52
Transcript:
00:00
Understood. If you can keep it right there, I think we'll be all right.
00:04
15 drivers, 412 firefighter, you got water coming?
00:08
We'll be able to have your freshers looking down there.
00:11
Command to 34, let me know when you have water again.
00:16
Command to 34 will relocate to a 15 and try to get peeled up.
00:22
Hey, let me know when you get water again.
00:24
It's spreading from in front of 15 back up toward you down that passable window a while ago.
00:30
Hey boss, we now have 15.
00:32
I didn't have enough hose to go to them so we moved the truck.
00:41
Condention 11, when you get more manpower on scene, can you send them to 15 please?
00:47
I'm by myself, Captain Drive, driver only.
00:50
We sure have some manpower from Station One.
00:52
I told them to report your truck, so when they get there, if you can send them down here, please.
00:58
Copy. And you are at Brush Twenty Nine?
01:02
Brush Fifteen.
01:04
Okay, I have two.
01:07
Brush Twenty Nine, Bravo to Command.
01:13
Twenty Nine to Command.
01:14
Go ahead,
01:17
Twenty Nine.
01:19
Hey, I'm gonna pull up the power line and meet you over top of the hill if you have water up there.
01:25
Somebody in your truck? You got a tanker just below you.
01:29
If you come out of that driveway you're in and go down the road, 17 should be sitting right there beside us.
01:37
Okay, we cleared a way to come up the power line, but I'll go back down the mountain if that's where they are.
01:46
All I have up here is Engine 11 with 750.
01:49
He's got 3000 just below you, and 11's supplying two trucks right now.
01:55
Roger that, I'll go back in.
01:59
Okay, thank you.
02:01
17, you got a line laid out for him?
02:03
Three to command, you've got Madison Tanker One staging on scene now.
02:09
Okay, thank you.
02:10
What about their brush truck? Do you know what their ETA is?
02:14
Stand by. Okay, Madison Brush Three is off location.
02:18
Madison Brush Truck Three on scene, 1430.
02:21
Dispatch, Tanker 17 and Brush 29 come up to the end of state maintenance.
02:24
You'll see Engine 11 make a right and come back in there.
02:28
They just need manpower at this point if you send them to 15.
02:35
Trauma Five, stay there.
02:38
You're right, Trauma Five, 1430.
02:41
Engine Eleven, did you have a tanker coming up here to me?
02:46
I can get you Tanker One if he can get my Seventeen down there.
02:52
Okay,
02:53
If they could get up here and pull past Engine 11 and supply me, we can figure out how to get them out of here later.
03:02
Name myself.
03:05
Okay, Madison Tank for when you direct on that?
03:08
Madison Tanker 1, can you repeat that truck?
03:13
Tank one, if you would come on up, we'll make a left on Saddleback.
03:17
Stay bearing to the left and come all the way to the dead end.
03:19
You'll see Engine 11.
03:22
Copy that, make a left on Saddleback from all the way to there.
03:26
So there's road forks there a little bit.
03:28
The state to the left, come all the way up to the top.
03:31
You'll see Engine 11.
03:32
You have to go past Tanker 17.
03:35
We're correct.
03:38
Eleven to 15, shut down your line until you get a tanker up there.
03:43
Okay, thank you.
03:46
Five three four is command.
03:49
Come in, go ahead.
03:52
You want us to start in front?
03:56
Yes, go back up and go down as far as you can go.
03:58
We have it starting to come up toward you between these two trails.
04:03
Yeah.
04:06
Fifteen to command, I'm pulled back on tank water.
04:09
Thirty-fourth floor, we've been through the original position.
04:12
Okay, we should have tanker one up here in about five or six minutes.
04:16
Green's direct 14 thirty-three.
04:19
Greene, you show Barboursville Brush 25 on Saddleback now.
04:22
We're approaching scene.
04:24
Direct brush twenty-five unseen 14 thirty-four.
04:27
Green to commander, are you direct?
04:30
Negative, can you repeat?
04:33
Barboursville Brush 25 is on scene now.
04:36
Okay, Commander Brush 29, you need any additional manpower on your end?
04:41
Commander Brush 29.
04:44
Go ahead.
04:46
I have Barboursville's brush truck on scene.
04:49
You need them with you? I'm pretty decent up here on this end then once I get Madison's truck here.
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Location mentioned:
Saddleback Rd, Virginia 22973
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