Fire crews extinguish grass fire in Springfield area, Springfield MO


Fire crews responded to a grass fire covering about one acre in Springfield. The fire was moving slowly southward. Firefighters worked on containing the fire, addressing concerns about a bridge's weight limit for fire trucks. The fire was ultimately put out.
Audio|Source: Springfield and Greene County Fire Operations
02:47
Transcript:
You can see us arriving on scene with H command. Clear, off six. Rush one, all put it's on scene and all that. You just start a fire attack. That's clear. Just by 7thager. Other either go ahead. I'll see eachman. Clear, I'm sick. Enterfewing pressure arriving. Switching to ops. Some users arrived, we got an approximate, uh, maybe an acre fire. Short grass, slow moving to the south, starting at H, fire lines going forward to west. Brush two will be out for fire attack. Three one will be on fire attack with a brush truck, 30 will be using TANTools, fire attack on the roadway. Engine 4 is arriving. Page Command, you need 200's continued response. Uh, yeah, for now. Fresh 4 is arriving. Engine 4, I need a rig. The 4 copy is getting a rake. You can cancel. Do you just cancel 200? Yep. That's clear, 200s in service. Or if you can go on the other side of this creek and work on those hot spots over there. Let me double check this bridge first. I'm not sure if that's a load bearing bridge for your truck or not. Rushmore, just to tag it from this side of that creek. I don't trust that bridge with your truck. Any truck, actually. Copy. Fires out on H. Command transfer to Ebeneyzer 31, Tender 2 and engine 4 will be clearanceing. Hey, don't drive any trucks over that bridge.
You can see us arriving on scene with H command. Clear, off six. Rush one, all put it's on scene and all that. You just start a fire attack. That's clear. Just by 7thager. Other either go ahead. I'll see eachman. Clear, I'm sick. Enterfewing pressure arriving. Switching to ops. Some users arrived, we got an approximate, uh, maybe an acre fire. Short grass, slow moving to the south, starting at H, fire lines going forward to west. Brush two will be out for fire attack. Three one will be on fire attack with a brush truck, 30 will be using TANTools, fire attack on the roadway. Engine 4 is arriving. Page Command, you need 200's continued response. Uh, yeah, for now. Fresh 4 is arriving. Engine 4, I need a rig. The 4 copy is getting a rake. You can cancel. Do you just cancel 200? Yep. That's clear, 200s in service. Or if you can go on the other side of this creek and work on those hot spots over there. Let me double check this bridge first. I'm not sure if that's a load bearing bridge for your truck or not. Rushmore, just to tag it from this side of that creek. I don't trust that bridge with your truck. Any truck, actually. Copy. Fires out on H. Command transfer to Ebeneyzer 31, Tender 2 and engine 4 will be clearanceing. Hey, don't drive any trucks over that bridge.
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Springfield, MO
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