Brush fire spreads over an acre near Grove Street in South Portland, South Portland ME
WildfireFirefighters are responding to a brush fire covering about an acre near Grove Street and Baltimore Avenue in South Portland. The fire is spreading toward a white house, and additional crews are arriving to contain it.
Audio|Source: South Portland Police and Fire/EMS Dispatch
06:46
Transcript:
00:00
We're on the scene, it's actually outside the gate, but we do have access here.
00:05
There are some pipeline people working on it.
00:08
About 42 file.
00:10
File, Lermentz and Carford, too.
00:12
A lot of 45 take the Gator to the end of Grove Street.
00:16
We've got at least an acre going.
00:18
10, 4. Car 42 found.
00:20
I'd call a company this call, would you? We got quite a player.
00:24
Cat for. Car 42, do you want engine 44 or 2?
00:31
No, you should have at least the acre going or better.
00:34
I want to keep them in the city for a minute.
00:37
Still trying to figure out how much is burning.
00:39
If it's still alarm.
00:40
Silver ladder 45 with the gator to Grove in Baltimore, see the units on seat for an acre-wide brush fire.
00:51
Silver, engine 46, ladder 45 with the gator, Grove and Baltimore for an acre-wide brush fire.
00:59
We'd actually get two precise fires going.
01:03
One's on that house we drove by.
01:04
I'll get engine 5 and put that out.
01:08
Copy that. We're pulling out pre-connected with our high-rise pack over here to get all this stuff.
01:12
Yeah, you work that side and I'll have 45 take the other side.
01:16
Cover. A lot of 45 there.
01:28
Command. Go ahead.
01:29
Forty-two column, ladder 45.
01:31
Yeah, we're jumping off the water tanks on the cater.
01:34
He's going to be en route shortly.
01:35
We're kicking a ladder now.
01:36
Where do you want the ladder to go?
01:37
In the Grove Street,
01:38
there'll be a white house and there's a good tight fire approaching that house now.
01:43
Looms on the opposite side of that fire, trying to work his way towards it.
01:47
Our head to Grove Street.
01:48
I'm going to try to meet you there.
01:50
Figure out how big this is.
01:51
Simple. Still, for ambulance 42 to 92 campus tribe for Town of Scarborough.
01:57
It's going to be at the neurospine for a 26-year-old female at chest pains, still for ambulance 42,
02:04
to 92 campus drive at neurospine for a 26-year-old female at chest pains with the town of Scarborough.
02:09
Got 42 out of 45.
02:11
No, 45. Jeff,
02:13
go to the school and out back behind the parking lot.
02:19
I'm sorry, the playground is where you want to be.
02:21
All right, so you want to find out Kelsey pass the school?
02:24
I do. Ingeny's on Groove Street, Grove Street, and if I want you to go to the school.
02:29
All right, we'll be at the end of just a minute.
02:30
We're on the White Street.
02:31
Go ahead. We've got everything immediately in this area to knock down, we're going to be mopping up.
02:35
Okay. Hopefully a lot of 45 can get the other end.
02:38
I'll walk through the woods over to that area.
02:39
Make sure we got nothing else going in here.
02:41
Jeff, do you see the fire in there?
02:42
No, I'm at the fence line, it's a pipeline.
02:44
I don't see any smoke or anything.
02:45
They just sit on the left of that White House at the very end.
02:49
The ladder pulls up further, you should see it.
02:51
Back, I'm on foot, trying to find it.
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