Brush fire contained at homeless encampment near Burns Dr SW, Atlanta GA


Firefighters responded to a large brush fire at a homeless encampment inside an old burned-out building near Burns Dr SW. The fire was brought under control without shutting down the nearby Metro roadway. Additional water and fire engines were used to manage the situation.
Audio|Source: Atlanta Fire Rescue
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Transcript:
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Looks like we've got a large brush of fire
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off of a match right right here. We're going to need to shut down metro. Go ahead and start me two additional engines in the truck.
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Wait, see, 21, 17 hours.
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If you want to stay on tag two or go to tag three?
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Your engine 20?
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Proceed.
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Okay. Proceed.
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Pindigant, 13, 30, 3rd30, Club 2, was having 1.
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From 5.3536, Michigan, Central,
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the road.
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Injord 18, 303, 2 is 2,5,
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96. Major Pots are west out of the Carson-Purkison Road.
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321.20 hours.
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The unit is already sitting in me.
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291, engine 43, paramedic engine 30, and truck 2.
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Or can imagine twice.
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Go it is.
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Situation now, we might have to shut down Metro.
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Give me another minute, too.
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Care for engine 20.
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Okay, so you got injured 14, truck 2, paramedic engine 30, and detain one around your location.
01:43
When you finish assessing the situation, let us know if we need to stop and get the positive water source for what you need, book up on our rival.
01:52
So it's going to be a large homeless encampment inside of the old burnout building. It's just a shell.
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It's not going to go anywhere. I believe we can handle with engine 20 and engine 14.
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We don't need to shut down Metro.
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We just need the extra water.
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Receive, we'll continue everybody and then we'll just see what we can do when we arrive on saying we're at least destructive we need to.
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Location mentioned:
Burns Dr SW, Atlanta, GA 30310
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