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Slow moving wildfire spreads behind high schoolHilo HI

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Hilo, HI 96720

Firefighters are responding to a slow moving wildfire about half to one acre in size. The fire is spreading through eucalyptus trees behind a public high school in Hilo, Hawaii. Multiple units are coordinating efforts to contain and extinguish the fire using water from a hydrant at the school. There is currently no threat to nearby structures, and the fire is being monitored closely for any changes.

Audio|Source: Hawaii County Public Safety - Hamakua/North Hilo
03:37
Transcript:
00:00
So we located the fire.
00:03
It's a slow moving fire about our half acre. It's in the eucalypt disc. We're going to have to extend.
00:13
We need to be accomplished here. I extend our such 17 down the road.
00:22
You're going to have to tie into a brush truck heat and brush record is going to have to extend.
00:31
This section, Captain 8.
00:37
This is your name from Brustrack 8. Looks like easier access, it's going to be the Honokal High School parking lot.
00:43
We're going to relocate Brustrug 8 there.
00:45
With EMT 8, we're going to extend from the parking lot.
00:49
And we should be by the fire about 200 feet, 300 feet.
00:52
Medicaid from Captain 8.
00:55
Okay, okay.
00:57
Hey, Jimmy, if you can jump in with Dustruck 8,
01:00
me and we'll meet you guys down there and we're going to pull holes up and then engine age you guys can relocate to the whole knockout parking lot where we do our course.
01:12
Kind of a messy copy. I want to turn on before.
01:17
Car control brushwark 17 is on clean.
01:20
We're heading to the parking lot of the park.
01:22
Control copy.
01:26
Central 230.
01:28
Let's um... Delight, Trollito.
01:30
No,
01:31
I've passed in the 19 mile mark. So far.
01:40
Happily from Indonesia,
01:42
we can relocating to the other side of the park.
01:45
Yeah, EMTA is from a walkout to there, he'll flag you guys down, that's where you're going to be a formal, he hasn't stopped that hydrant by the school, we'll be our water supply, and we should be good, and then we can extend.
01:58
Hardy 6-1-60.
02:01
Okay.
02:06
Anyway.
02:10
You're just checking is 6-3 and 6-4 coming back through the quarry, one other loads.
02:25
Roger, I just passed 6-3 at the bottom date.
02:31
Yeah, she'll get enough time and then 6-5, I can pick them up.
02:39
People hundred fourteen hundred at the quarry.
02:44
Roger, good copy, yeah, 6-5 also was right behind 6-3, heading back down to the quarry. 10-4[1], then 6-6 will take back the equipment.
03:01
Thank you, 6-0 player.
03:04
Six to click.
03:06
Uh, 370, 315.
03:10
You open site, my second.
03:11
Alright,
03:13
six, five, six, two, eight.
03:16
Four.
03:18
Just not from Kepenay.
03:20
Stephanie, go here.
03:22
Yeah, we have about a half acre to one acre, full creeping fire. It's visible.
03:27
Moving through the eucalyptus trees just behind the Tauwana High School.
03:32
We're going to be, uh...
03:36
We'll keep your advice as things change.
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[1]
10-4: Acknowledgment or affirmative; message received and understood.

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