Smoke and haze seen near SW 60th and Ohio streets, Butler County KS
Fire & ArsonLight smoke and haze observed near Southwest 60th and Ohio Street with a possible grass fire suspected. No controlled burns reported in the area. The smoke and haze were noticed spreading in nearby areas, with a faint smell of smoke. Officials are checking further east to identify the source of the smoke, which may be from a large grass fire to the southeast.
Audio|Source: Butler County Area Sheriff, Police, EMS and EMA
06:26
Transcript:
00:00
To dispatch, see if they've got a controlled burn in the area.
00:05
Hizzler.
00:07
Still have light smoke at SW 60th and Ohio.
00:17
Go ahead.
00:21
King 0.05-7147, Class of Decker.
00:33
They've removed to Brandon Walker, no vehicle information.
00:41
That's what I was going to suggest.
00:53
Okay, if I wanted to just check with Augusta, they do not have any burns.
00:57
Also, we didn't have any in that area today either.
01:04
10-4[1], still have light smoke and haze southwest 65th.
01:20
Pick up nine county fire.
01:27
What's our current wind direction?
01:33
South, you said six.
01:48
10-4[1]. 10-4, thank you.
01:58
314, welfare check.
02:03
Go ahead.
02:09
Be at near Frederick Drive.
02:12
Be attempting contact with...
02:17
A (name withheld) can be a 15, a one five-year-old, Code 1, curly blonde hair.
02:25
RP is going to be a football coach out of the city.
02:28
That says he got video of the subject,
02:33
Signal 4,
02:35
with wrist,
02:37
about an hour ago.
02:41
He also was not at football practice today.
02:45
I just wanted to make sure he's okay.
02:49
He had been texting the coach still.
02:57
Do we know the coach contacted the parents?
03:03
No answer, and in the text messages the juvenile says they are home alone.
03:12
Same one. I'll be in a ride as well. I'll be coming from any choice.
03:21
Ten-four. Ten-four.
03:23
319. I'm in route.
03:26
I'm on trafficway.
03:29
What's the name of the juvenile I'm needing to make contact with?
03:36
G.R.
03:38
Jones.
03:41
Go ahead for it.
03:51
Hey, south of us.
03:59
We can start to smell it again on 60th headed west.
04:09
308. Can you attempt to find 821 for the parents?
04:18
Never.
04:25
Really? Can you go to two?
04:32
9 to 11.
04:35
11, go ahead.
04:41
We're going to go a little further east over to Hopkins Switch and check over there.
04:46
There is a haze south of 60th,
04:50
just east of Shumway.
05:00
Now we got haze clover here west of Ohio Street and a light odor of smoke.
05:13
Ten, four.
05:20
Three fourteen, ten, ten, ten, twenty-eight.
05:25
Go ahead.
05:29
Uh,
05:34
never mind.
05:35
Can't contact with parents.
05:39
Ten, ten-four.
05:45
319-308 can you go over to 409 Jones 7 traffic pull on the fire
05:59
Go ahead Sheriff Salvin.
06:03
I don't know, dispatch let you know, I was all the way in the 8,000 block, Highway 77,
06:09
south of El Dorado and had the same haze and kind of grass fire smell.
06:14
I don't know if maybe there's a large grass fire out to the southeast and it's blowing through or what?
06:22
I was kind of starting to think the same thing because it seemed to be everywhere.
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Location mentioned:
SW 60th St & SW Ohio Street Rd, Towanda Township, KS 67010
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