Brush fires spreading across pasture near railroad tracks, Bay City TX
WildfireFirefighters are responding to multiple brush fires spreading rapidly across a pasture near the railroad tracks in Bay City. Units are coordinating water supply and access routes to contain the fires spreading south and east.
Audio|Source: Matagorda County Public Safety
02:15
Transcript:
00:00
Jacob, when you come in and go across the railroad track, you're going to pick up the Bay City fireman and y'all come on down here to the south side of this fire.
00:17
10408 to 101.
00:21
101, go ahead.
00:24
When y'all come in, go over the railroad track and turn to the right and just follow that little shell road on down till you get in between these two fires.
00:36
We'll put you up there for water supply.
00:41
I understand. Railroad attack, to make a left.
00:47
Negative, oh, the railroad tracks make right and just come on down.
00:52
I think Matagorda's got a pumper truck down there where I want you to sit for now.
00:59
One on,
01:00
receive, over tracks to the right.
01:07
553 and 559 in route in 502.
01:11
County.
01:13
Two-20.
01:16
120, 120, 1-8.
01:20
20-1-8. Say it, 1-2.2.
01:27
Yeah,
01:30
I'm going to go down there and get the head of this fire and see where it's going.
01:34
Yeah, they got one here where me and Manor Gordo are, and it's going straight south, and you come on past me, there's another fire to the east of here. And I don't know where they, I haven't been over here yet.
01:49
Yeah, they let these brush fires all everywhere.
01:54
Yeah, that's how this thing got started.
01:57
They're all over this, all over this whole pasture.
02:00
Well, I tell you what, come around me and let's go, go farther back over here to the east from here. Let's see if we can figure out how far this thing goes.
02:10
This may just be one half a circle of a fire right now, but we don't know that yet.
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Location mentioned:
Bay City, TX 77414
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