Spontaneous mulch pile fire at Paul Bunyan site

Heard on: Preble NY Fire-Tac

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This transcript is auto-generated from live dispatch audio and may be incomplete or inaccurate. It is not an official report and may change.

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Go up to the northernmost entrance at Paul Bunyan.

00:04

You are going to park next to my truck.

00:07

You'll see where all the soft mulch starts.

00:10

Let's try to stay out of that.

00:12

My truck sunk a little ways.

00:14

I had to get four-wheel drive to get out of it.

00:18

Copy.

00:21

863 to 511 on trouble ops.

00:26

Hey Nick, you want us to drive in front of your truck and wait, or what do you want us to do?

00:31

Eight hundred and sixty-three from 500 and sixty-three, probable loss.

00:36

Go ahead, chief.

00:38

I am heading your way.

00:40

I caught the traffic.

00:41

Five hundred and eleven's waiting for manpower.

00:44

I'll meet him there.

00:45

What do you got? Just a mulch pile burner.

00:50

Yeah, I got a spontaneous combustion burn into the pile, probably a few feet.

00:56

We're gonna have to dig out, and we just can't get super close to it.

01:00

Yeah .

2026-10-21 15:14 UTC

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NY-281, Preble, NY 13141

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Not official report. AI-generated from public dispatch audio. Always verify with official sources.

As discussed during the dispatch call, fire crews responded to a mulch pile fire at the northernmost entrance of Paul Bunyan. The fire appeared to be a spontaneous-combustion burn a few feet into the pile, and crews discussed access challenges, a truck that had sunk in soft mulch, and the need for manpower to dig it out.

Spontaneous mulch pile fire at Paul Bunyan site

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