Small brush fires near Lansing Ave threaten homes, San Jose CA
Fire & ArsonFire crews responded to two small brush fires along the right-hand shoulder of northbound Highway 85 near Camden Avenue. Each fire was about 50 feet long and separated by about 100 feet. Smoke and flames were visible over the sound wall. There was concern the fires might threaten nearby homes near Lansing Avenue, and neighbors were seen spraying water to protect their properties. Firefighters conducted structure checks to ensure no fire extension to homes.
Audio|Source: San Jose Fire
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Engine 13, San Jose.
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Go to 13. Entron 13, multiple callers reporting of a small brush fire on the right-hand shoulder.
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Northbound 85 just south of Camden.
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13, copy.
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Ms.A from Measure 13.
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Engine 13.
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Can you start as a water tender for additional water, please?
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Engine 13th, we'll start your water.
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Water tender 17, engine 17, small brush or grass fire, northbound 85 south of Townton Avenue, Station 13's area.
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Jose from Measure 13th 13.
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Engine 13?
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Can we start just a single engine or maybe a structure response to check the homes on the other side? Address of near Lansing Avenue.
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The fire does seem to be like on top of the wall possibly on the other side.
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Agent 13104, structure response to near Lansing Avenue.
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Yes, that's correct.
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I copy that.
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We're going to handle this on Command 21 Utilize Commit.
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Affirm, send the water tender to our location.
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Engine 37, engine 22, truck 13, battalion 13, structure response for a structure fire.
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The command channel is Command 21, near Lansing Avenue, near Jarvis Avenue and Sutcliffe Avenue, Station 17's area.
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The command channel is Command 21.
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TAC 13 on Command 21.
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1. TENJ 37 on 21.
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TANZE-T-TRAZE-T-T-EV-T-T-T-T.
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Jan 22, confirm you're on command 21.
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And Jan 17, confirm you're on command 21.
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Gen. Gen 22, come from here on command 21.
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Truck 2. Truck 2, go ahead.
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Truck 2, disregard.
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Track 2. Correct 2. Engine 22, copy your end route.
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Forking, engine 17, are you on Command 21?
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Engine 17, are you up on Command 21? Correction on San Josefire.
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Affirm, Engine 17 and Waterton, 17 in Route 10 in Route.
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Under 17, 1014 and Watertoner 17.
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We're going to have you guys work this on Command 21.
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Command 21 from Engine 13, copy.
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And Gen 13.
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If you set it's up as IC, we'll do it, 85 IC if you haven't.
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And Gen 13, I'll show you as 85 IC.
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Right, good time, 13.
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Command 21.
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17 is on 21.
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And Gen 17. And Gen 17.
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Battalion 13 from IC.
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IC go to Paton 13 on Command 21.
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So I have two grass fires along the side of the freeway, about 50 feet each length, separated by about 100 feet.
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We do have some smoke and flames coming over the sound wall.
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The address that I have for that is near Lansing Avenue.
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17 will be coming to the freeway with the water tender for additional water sources over here.
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I just want to confirm that those houses aren't on the other side.
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I see from Battalion 13.
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Yeah, we're dispatched to near Lansing Avenue.
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That was the original address that I looked at the map real quick, but on further details, the one I just gave you is more accurate.
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Near Lansing Avenue.
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I see neighbors spraying water over the fence.
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I see the time 13 copies.
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We'll check those out.
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Engine 17 from engine 13, or I see.
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Go to 17.
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If you can pull past engine 13, let your water tender supply engine 13 with some more water.
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We have another fire about 100 feet in front of us that we need you guys to grab.
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Copy. You want the tender with you and we're going to bump up 100 feet on this attack of fire, correct?
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That's affirmative.
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Copyware. I see truck 13.
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Good,
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I see. We're on the residential side.
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We do have the fire standing multiple houses.
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We're going to be checking to make sure there's no extension.
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We'll update.
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Location mentioned:
Near Lansing Ave, San Jose, CA 95118
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