Wildfire burns pine plantation near Long Spur Road, Jefferson County AR
WildfireA wildfire is burning slowly in a pine plantation near Long Spur Road at the Rhone Hunting Club in Jefferson County. Firefighters are on scene working to keep the fire from crossing the road. Forestry has been contacted and is sending a plow to help. The fire covers several acres but no buildings or structures are threatened. No additional fire department resources are needed at this time.
Audio|Source: Watson Chapel Fire Dept
04:4
Transcript:
00:00
All right, I'm on the scene here.
00:01
Get out and see how many acres we've got. I don't think I'm going to do nothing with it now.
00:09
Top. Yeah,
00:16
I'm going to keep it going to jump in the road here. It's burning real slow, but it's all pine plantation and it's all underbrush, but we get in a little bit of wind behind it, get a little fuel going to have a problem.
00:29
All right,
00:31
the official request for Fort Street is it still need to go through their dispatch.
00:36
Not that I know that, let me call it Brian real quick.
00:38
Yeah, we ain't gonna be able to do nothing with it, except keep it off the road here.
00:43
All right, I don't know who else we got around today now, but you need some help.
00:51
It depends on this wind starts blowing.
00:55
Yeah, I mean,
00:57
I can find out that information, let me get on the phone with the weather service and see.
01:07
Let me know if I need to call their dispatch or not.
01:11
I will if I need to.
01:17
Go ahead.
01:19
He got off the phone with 141, he's going to see in Cleveland County up here and he's heading out here himself.
01:26
It's just burning through the grass right now, but we get a little windbine up with my problem. It's about a 10-year-old pine plantation.
01:33
How many acres is? Can't tell?
01:38
I don't know. This one here, yeah, this right here is probably 5, 6 acres and this ain't in the hot spot. The other hot spots, probably 5, 10 acres over down the road here.
01:47
All right, but you don't need anybody else from us right now. I'm going to go and have mecca keep times for us, so it'll be sent out on our phones anyway, just in case it turns in something.
01:59
Yeah, definitely make an incident for it.
02:02
If 25 ain't doing nothing, he can ease down here, I mean, he ain't doing nothing but trying to keep it from jumping the roads here.
02:09
That'd be 24.
02:15
Pardon it, 24.
02:19
24, do you copy?
02:22
I copy. I heard him discriminating my number.
02:30
I just code 1[1].
02:33
If they can get down there with him.
02:37
10, 4. I'll have to wait when I can.
02:47
402A.
02:50
Go ahead, 6414.
02:54
Can you create an incident to show us out on the Wood's Fire, Long Spur Road at the Rhone Hunting Club?
03:01
We've already been in contact with Forestry.
03:05
They're going to send the plow out.
03:08
We're out doing what we can do with it.
03:13
For what was the street?
03:17
Rome Spur Road off of Highway 79 South, I don't know if it's going to be in the cat or not.
03:25
There's no structures threatened anything like that. It's all in a pine plantation. We're just trying to keep it from jumping the road.
03:32
We won't meet any additional resources as far as from other fire departments or anything right now.
03:38
10464.R. 6.4-R-G.
03:43
I'm going to be out of the vehicle just, man. I'm going to run a hose out there, see if I can't hit this little head off in front of the fire.
03:54
24. Okay,
04:03
buddy. Are you in a route down here?
Police codes explained
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[1]
code 1: Non-emergency transport/response (no lights or sirens)
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Jefferson County, AR
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