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Heard on: Currituck County Fire and EMS · 6 days ago
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Yeah, I got a tanker or an engine coming with 3,000 gallons of water right now. All right, copy that. Tell them to pull up where my engine is and beat it. I'm going to redirect them to you. Right now I'm going to give you Engine 121 and Engine 13 a man over there. You'll have Engine 40 as soon as they arrive. He's about 5 min out. DC 12 from 1209. The medic two, they've got rehab set up there. Yes sir, copy. Captain Five from command. Captain Five from command. Man, Lieutenant Five, go ahead. All right, what's your status right there? We're still putting out hot spots and I got one place on the roof of this trailer that keeps popping up. All right, Lieutenant Five, I'm going to give you Tanker One, Engine Five, and Brush Five. Is that what you have for resources right now? Okay, for Engine Five. Lieutenant Five, is that what you've got for resources right there? This is Captain Five. I've got Tango Two, Engine Five, Tanker One here. On this, on my area here, Rush five's bumped away to put out no fires. Okay. Battalion 106 command. Yeah, 106, go ahead. You got eyes on whatever's producing that dark smoke? And I'm trying to get back to it now. It's a fairly heavy pine thicket. I'm not sure what else is in it. Okay, have you got eyes on brush five? Yeah, just walked past and they're trying to get a supply line hooked up to it. Rush five has connected to water supply. Command from deputy chief twelve. Battalion 106 to Brush 5. Say again? Battalion 106 to brush 5, when you can, I need that brush truck moved forward into this field so we can get water on this pile with the booster line. Hey, are you talking about the big log pile in the back? Yeah, affirmative. We just need to get your vehicle closer so we can get the hose lines to it. Hey, firm got a couple seconds before a full tank and then we'll disconnect from water supply. All right, 106 to command. Yeah, go ahead. A large pile of wooden poles and some railroad tie kind of stuff. It's what's producing our black smoke. Fire still running to the east from here, but we need to get that pile put out. Working on repositioning. All right, right now I got 66 with fresh bodies. You need them back there? No, I just need to get the brush truck closer so we can get a knock on it. All right, at the moment I'm giving you Brush Five. He is yours. Command, Engine 12 operator. 12 operator, go ahead. Engine 12 is out of water, waiting for water to be delivered. Okay. All right, copy, Engine 1. Engine 121, all copies are out of water. 121, I'm sending Engine 10. Sixty-six around to you. They've only got 600 gallons, but that'll at least get you through until 40 gets here. Forty-two command. Hey guys. He's coming up on the Harley Davidson dealership now, so we should be to Engine Twelve in about a minute. Yeah, okay. Command Deputy Chief Twelve, what rig was that? It's coming to my engine. That's Engine 40. It's got 3000 plus gallons on it, and they're passing me out to the Harley Davidson dealership now. All right, copy that. Break. Engine 4. Engine 40, respond to my location. Man from Forestry 1. Forestry 1, go ahead. Yeah, I've got the northeastern part of the wildfire scouted out. Minimal fire behavior. Best access is going to be off Forester Trail Road. All right, that's Forester off of Point Harbor. Yeah, it's confirmed, Forester Trail Road, and then probably meet up with Engine 121 and work to the northeast from there. Okay. Command from Deputy Chief Twelve. Go ahead, sir. All right, Engine Thirteen and Engine 121 and Engine Forty, have them switch over to TAC Two for communication. All right, sounds good, sir. Thirteen copies, TAC Two. Engine 101 copies, TAC Two. Team from Deputy C12, what's your water supply like? We've got a little less than half a tank. We're holding that reserve in case the fire spreads further this way. We've got it knocked down pretty good. We need to get that water to 12 first, but then we'll need more to hit hot spots. All right, copy that. I got Engine 40 on my engine. They still have some active fire back there, so we're going to get that and then we'll get you next in water supply here. Copy. CC 12 to command, I'll switch to TAC Two. Go ahead, command. All right, I'm going to send medic two over to you. They've got water and also if we got anybody over there at the residence that needs to be checked out. Received. I've also got a fresh engine crew out here with me. It's Engine 121. Have another crew with you? Yeah, I've got a fresh engine crew out here with me if you need additional hands there. Thirteen. I'll let you know in a second.
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Large wildfire battle near Caratoke Highway

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As discussed during the dispatch call, firefighters and multiple engine and tanker crews responded to a large wildfire near Caratoke Highway in Harbinger, North Carolina. The response involved coordination among several units to establish water supply and contain the spread of fire through brush, debris piles, and a pine thicket. Crews worked to control hotspots and prevent the fire from advancing eastward.

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Caratoke Hwy, Harbinger, NC 27941
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