Brush fire near Highway 98 threatens pasture and structures, Lakeland FL
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WildfireAccording to the dispatch call, a brush fire near Highway 98 and KO Road involved multiple brush trucks and a battalion command. Fire extended into pasture and threatened several structures including a double-wide mobile home and barns. The fire was near power lines, with crews protecting the electrical company truck and controlling the fire along power lines. Several gates were passed through to access the fire area, and water supply and wind conditions were considerations for firefighting efforts.
Audio|Heard on: Polk County Fire Rescue, Fire and EMS
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08:36
Transcript:
00:00
I'm set up here at Highway 98 where Brush 23 and Bat 1 made entry.
00:05
Would you like me to remain here or relocate to KO Road
00:08
and Purple again?
00:11
Go ahead and relocate to KO Road
00:13
and Purple.
00:14
That way it'll be easier for the brush truck to get in and out.
00:19
I don't know how far of a drive it would be for them to get out from where they're at.
00:28
My copy, relocating the C.O.
00:29
Purple.
00:35
Okay, I tell you, Warren.
00:36
Hey, man. From your band's point, tell me what you see.
00:40
I think I'm just north of you on the other side of that bayhead that we were talking about.
00:46
And what I'm looking at, we got a right,
00:49
your right,
00:50
a east flank,
00:52
and then we have some going into the bayhead, is that correct?
00:57
That's permative.
00:58
I have a visual on 23 right now.
01:03
We have the flank to the right.
01:06
I don't know if you could see where the electric company is, but that's pretty much where the line of the flank is, and then you've got the bay head that we've been talking about where the fire is extending into.
01:19
It looks like Rush 23 has a decent knock on that head from my advantage point.
01:29
Two and forty, yeah, I just, I'm not able to see that well with all the smoke, so.
01:35
Yeah, I can see 23 in the black.
01:39
I don't have a visual on you with the wall of smoke from that head.
01:46
First,
01:47
23 battalion, one, confirmed you're still in the same location you were at or a little bit further back.
01:53
Yeah, I went back towards where those cowpins were there's multiple gates we went through.
01:59
Stop it, you're just on the other side of that wall of smoke from where it commands at.
02:04
I'm heading out to get water now at this time.
02:11
10-4[1]. Yeah, it looks like the fire is about to push into another pasture.
02:19
23, go ahead and stop at me so I can grab a rope off your truck.
02:25
If it's about to push another patch or that one, you might want to pull 6 to try and hit that head again.
02:36
(number withheld), Fall (number withheld) Sugarwood Street, Pack 5, 400.
02:42
Engine 46, ahead.
02:47
I copy, 1200 hours.
02:54
Angel 6 command.
03:03
1934, Chastain, 130, Poblo Street, Tacks 6, 200 hours.
03:13
1828, rest of 28.
03:18
Copy,
03:20
go ahead and make it back towards me and let's hit the rest of this down before it gets into the rest of it.
03:32
24, copy.
03:38
Engine six to come in.
03:42
Good.
03:44
You want me to remain here at the driveway for near 11330 or go maybe down and meetup with 10 or 23.
03:52
Go ahead and remain where you're at.
03:58
Copy.
04:01
Command dispatch.
04:04
Come to meet.
04:06
Affirming, I only have two brush roads.
04:10
Affirm to start.
04:13
Okay, go ahead.
04:18
Go ahead and put a third one on the call please.
04:23
If we get a knock down on this fire, we'll go ahead and cancel them.
04:26
But with the wind that we have and the distance we have, though, our water supply,
04:32
go ahead and give me a third.
04:34
Happening tracks already, 1202.
04:44
Air Route 1 patient Laker.
04:46
Hi there, Your Routlandland.
04:51
Strow, (number withheld) State Park Road.
04:54
Pact 6, 1203.
04:58
1203. The flyer.
05:02
is going to be off 98-near Highway 98 north.
05:08
You're going to go through several cattle gates, but this is where I'm at, and this is where the fire is pushing through.
05:15
Broder to that.
05:16
Is there someone at that gate?
05:21
I got a Whistlecucci power truck that's with me.
05:24
He can help you.
05:26
If not, yeah, you're just got to get out and open it and go through them.
05:31
Roger that, no.
05:34
I just passed KO Road.
05:37
Road.
05:38
How it wears it in regards to that area.
05:42
It's just passed Kine and 98 on the right-hand side.
05:46
It's a mailbox.
05:48
It's marked with the address.
05:50
But I want to say a couple houses down north of Keeney and 98.
06:00
You're saying Keene or are you talking about Old Socrum Road?
06:09
Gene, Keene Road.
06:12
Roger.
06:17
Pack 8, pack 8, 4, 4.
06:26
32 complete 12 o4
06:30
Stand by 38 then please
06:35
Copy right now.
06:37
Thank you, 1204.
06:43
Quest 7 is hash.
06:46
5.7. 4.7. 4 7.
06:50
Southern's following me.
06:55
Press 7, select TAC 8.
06:57
TAC 8.
07:02
Press 7 on TAC 8, responding.
07:06
Copy 8, Qualify.
07:07
Copy Y, TOW 5.
07:12
Copy N-W.
07:16
7, Naval Drive.
07:18
TAC 7, 12.5.
07:28
the tagline.
07:30
Yeah.
07:34
Do you have any structures that are endangered over where you're at?
07:40
Negative, it's all pasture.
07:42
I do have Brush 24 at this moment protecting the Whittalcucci truck as they're doing their power lines.
07:56
10-4[1]. I do have several structures I'm with over here that this high grass runs right up to them.
08:04
I got a double-wide mobile home in two barns.
08:08
I copy.
08:10
Command, brush 24.
08:13
Brush 24.
08:16
Just knock the fire down that's around that electric company.
08:21
As long as they stay along the power lines,
08:26
the fire should be good.
08:27
You got that little area that smoldering right in front of their,
08:31
right in front of your truck that's behind your truck.
08:34
Go ahead and knock that down and then make your way back over this way.
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10-4: Acknowledgment or confirmation that a message is received and understood.
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Location mentioned:
US Hwy 98 N, Lakeland, FL 33809
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