Trash pile fire near Watterson Bridge

Heard on: Bastrop TX Fire Dispatch Group Calls

01:10

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

00:00

Could you send someone out to the Watterson Bridge off of Watterson Lane? There is a small fire going on.

00:08

All I have is dry chem.

00:09

I have it under control, but it's still smoldering.

00:11

I don't have enough to completely mop it up.

00:14

Copy. 2293, 4002, fire going.

00:21

Go ahead.

00:23

This is trying to reach a unit that was talking to you about the Watterson Bridge.

00:29

Go ahead.

00:31

Yes, sir. Is that the county's burn pile that's on fire?

00:37

No, sir. It looks like a big trash pile.

00:40

Someone's trying to burn and there's a large amount of plastics that dry chem aren't going to put out.

00:45

It's going to take just a.

00:53

Fire dispatch, you see one station, one vegetation fire at the Watterson Bridge, (number withheld)

00:59

Watterson Road, (number withheld) Watterson Road.

01:02

Respond on TAC 601.

01:05

Twenty 2903 from 4002 .

01:09

One tender to it.

7/9/2026 06:48 AM

Fire

Watterson Rd, Red Rock, TX 78662

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

As discussed during the dispatch call, units responded to a reported vegetation and trash fire near Watterson Bridge off Watterson Road. The caller said the small fire was mostly under control but still smoldering and involved a large trash pile with plastics burning, and requested additional resources to fully extinguish it.