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Smoke near Hammond Road comes from food truck smoker, Raleigh NC

Fire & Arson

Reported: 11/8/2025 05:16 AM

S Wilmington St, Raleigh, NC

Fire crews responded to a report of smoke near the exit by Hammond Road and Wilmington Street in Raleigh. Upon investigation, the smoke was found to be coming from a food truck smoker, not an actual fire. Units cleared the scene after confirming no danger.

Audio|Source: Wake County Fire

02:7

Transcript:

00:00

We've got one call only on it right now, so there's snow coming from the tree line for the exit for (number withheld).

00:09

Seriously.

00:12

And your caller is no longer in the area.

00:16

Okay,

00:20

thank you one.

00:23

We're going to shoot over South William Street, see if it's our same urban outdoorsman from the other day.

00:32

Engine, one copy.

00:38

Just you choose that patient.

00:40

Ten for a fission.

00:46

Ninja two, I think we saw it getting off the exit on Hammond Road, backed by the UPS building.

00:53

We're going to come up,

00:54

go back around Wilmington Street and try to make it in that way.

01:01

Well, we're on Wilmington Street, we don't see anything right here, so we're just...

01:11

Copy. It's like right at the bottom of the exit.

01:14

It's not very big.

01:15

We just saw, I think I saw a little small column of smoke.

01:23

So on Wilmington Street, are you pondering its own right at Hammond.

01:29

I think we turned in here right behind y'all at the UPS place.

01:33

We're going to try to make access from there.

01:35

It looks like it's behind all those buildings, all those shipping buildings.

01:47

And two, they got a smoker back here in one of the food trucks.

01:52

That's the only thing that I saw when we were coming up, Hammond.

01:58

Yeah, all the homeless camps are fine.

01:59

So they're probably just burned off the smoker.

02:02

All right, we're gonna clear up.

02:03

I hope y'all have a great day.

02:06

Copy that, we are as well.

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