Controlled burn spreads to sheds and buildings near Old Joppa Road, Massac County IL
Fire & ArsonFire units responded to a reported structure fire near Old Joppa Road in Massac County, Illinois. The fire was initially thought to be a controlled burn but spread to additional sheds and buildings. Multiple fire engines and tankers were dispatched to manage the fire. Deputies confirmed the fire was started by a neighbor as a controlled burn that spread unexpectedly.
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Transcript:
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Intention,
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Matt, accounting fire, please respond.
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You're going to be Old Joppa Road, Old Joppa Road, Old Joppa Road,
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if you call them a box, drop your fire, colors, and pass your by.
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State of the age is a device-booked.
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Titch,
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Massac County Fire, place response in the Old Joppa Road, Old Joppa Road, and Joppa Road.
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Color devising evil leaves hear me a possible structure fire.
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They need to see black smoke in what looks to be a building that's on the ground and on fire.
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Just seeing anybody out with those not sure what's going on.
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314-0-56 that the structure park.
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We can get out there and confirm that we can watch the fire department now.
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It's probably going to be a controlled burn.
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Caller's devised that they tore down a bar.
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It's going to be a neighbor and that the wood and the shingles on fire.
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We said it's rolling a lot of smoke.
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That can be while we're getting on with cold.
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One's got a control burn on a barn.
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Okay.
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Oh, you're good for.
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The arm that he's torn down with shingles on it.
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Three is on the black smoke.
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We're going to get any out there to confirm that it's control.
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No.
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Nobody went around yet.
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Hold them out.
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I can find out for sure.
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Stay on.
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Air Force. Control,
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but they advise it was the neighbor that did it.
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Two, four. Yeah,
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we got eyes on it now.
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Yeah.
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Can we hear us up?
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Hey,
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Mike.
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Sounds like, sorry, on the ground.
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Oh, let's see what happened.
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Oh, let's see what happened. Oh.
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Oh, this is in you my fire unit.
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One, Massa.
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Got it all right.
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F1 conservation is unseen.
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I've got deputies on scene. I've got deputies on scene as well.
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It is going to be a control burn.
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Somebody is burning a bar in the airport now.
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If you want to have everybody reporting the station, that'll be fine.
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Mark, one, still got any truck down here.
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There's a building on fire.
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What's your last traffic?
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We're still going to these county fire out here.
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We've got out of the buildings on fire as well.
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County fire units, deputies just advised, do not discontinue, they need you all to send trucks out there.
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There's now another shed on fire.
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Please respond.
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It's going to be Joppa Road and Old Joppa Road.
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A control fire that spread two other buildings.
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Okay, stand for us.
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Uh, county station, go ahead and roll, welcome to the truck fire.
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One from 14.
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Yeah, go ahead.
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Yeah,
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Mike, there's going to be two drivelies to get to this year.
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I was trying to figure out which is going to be the best.
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They're kind of deep down in here.
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Where the squad cars are, I'm going to, there's some personal vehicles there.
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I'm going to try to get them moved for you, which engine back here.
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Ten for us,
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we'll probably need to get tankers back here one at a time, so try to clear it out.
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That's him for you.
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It is going to be...
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Tankery and tanker out operation.
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One in route.
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Section 1, 10.4.
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Thanks your tanker 7 in route.
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104. 10, 4.
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Next roll.
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Mediq-12, go ahead.
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Do we go ahead and proceed on out there?
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10-4[1], if you don't mind, if we'd like to get you for standby.
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We were discontinued and now we're getting reports that it's caught another shed on fire.
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If you all can do, stand-by there at the scene.
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10-4[1]-7-4-7.
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Stand-4.
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At the look, T2.3,
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it's going to be better stepping in the second drive,
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which will be,
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which will be, which will be, uh,
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had, what, cars out of the drive.
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One cars are in the next driveway.
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And the kind of turn to go back here as well, it's going to be.
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there's just two trees of very low range and all.
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I think I copied that.
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You're freaking up really bad.
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Go past the driveway if you see a squad car.
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You'll actually drive just a little bit past the fire and it'll be the next driveway.
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You'll see,
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have them turn in right past where my truck is sitting and they can drive straight back to it.
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Tim Ford, I think they're going to get there for me.
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I'm on the way, but I'm going to be a few minutes late.
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10-4: Acknowledgement / Affirmative
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Old Joppa Rd, Illinois 62960
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