Smoke sighting near Bee Tree Christian Church found safe, Swannanoa NC
Fire & ArsonMultiple units responded to reports of smoke near Bee Tree Christian Church and Lost Whippoorwill Lane. Crews investigated the area, including a nearby construction site, but found no active fire or visible flames. A faint smoke smell was noted, but the source could not be identified.
Audio|Source: Buncombe County Fire and EMS
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Transcript:
00:00
Yeah, I'm here with the reporting party.
00:03
It looks like I can barely see what he's seeing, but it looks like it might be off water.
00:14
I'm trying to get a little bit better.
00:16
It's right before you get to Bee Tree Christian Church,
00:19
I don't know how far that road will go out.
00:27
I'm 183.
00:33
22 the EOC.
00:37
Go ahead.
00:40
Darw on M.S.
00:41
We've got now.
00:44
CMS 10,
00:46
they're on 26.
00:49
Well, Weaverville.
00:53
Okay.
00:59
C14 comes.
01:03
G14.
01:05
So I went all the way up to the picnic area and came back down to Lane Pinnacle, not seeing anything obvious.
01:16
Okay,
01:18
yeah, just that one call from that caller on the Lane Pinnacle Trail looking in a southerly direction.
01:26
And like I said, I've got swan of noise checking for another report that's possibly what they might have seen in the V-Tree area.
01:39
And once you get something further on this, go ahead and show Primus Creek Units in Service.
01:46
Okay,
01:47
I'll show you in squad 17 service (number withheld).
01:56
Communications for Engine 8 on Bunkin PowerMet.
02:00
Antoinette.
02:02
Sir,
02:04
can you give me the run number for this call?
02:10
Engine 8, your run number is (number withheld).
02:18
(number withheld).
02:25
I copy, thank you.
02:26
You can show engine 8 back to service.
02:29
722.
02:34
Chiefsuit, Brush 6 on Swannanoa.
02:42
We came up watchnob and we're at the top of Lost Whippoorwill.
02:46
We're not seeing anything.
02:54
For sure,
02:57
I was in his driveway.
02:58
I was getting right back out.
03:00
You can kind of see a little bit of smoke through the woods,
03:05
and you can really smell it, but I'm not sure exactly where it's coming from.
03:12
Yeah, we can smell it too.
03:14
We're going to check out 183 lost whippoorwill.
03:18
There's a new construction site up here, and we're going to see if maybe they're burning something.
03:26
Ten-four, sounds good.
03:28
The only way I would know with his property and he said there's 50, 60 acres behind him would be, the only way I would know is to put a grown up.
03:42
I can see all the way back into the watershed from here and there's nothing that way.
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Location mentioned:
Lost Whippoorwill Ln, Swannanoa, NC 28778
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