Uncontrolled fire near fish farms in rural Calhoun County, Calhoun County TX
WildfireFire crews are responding to an uncontrolled fire near multiple fish farms in a rural area of Calhoun County, Texas. There is a controlled burn ongoing at (name withheld) Crawfish Farm on County Road 1289, but a separate wildfire is active nearby. Emergency responders are coordinating access and staging areas to manage the situation and prevent entry onto certain roads or levees. Efforts are focused on containing the uncontrolled fire distinct from the controlled burn.
Audio|Source: Calhoun County Sheriff, Fire, and EMS
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Transcript:
00:00
Tanker 46 to dispatch, tanker 46 is en route.
00:06
Received, Tanker, 46.
00:08
We advised, Fort LaBocca Fire did advise probably going to have to access from 1289. There is one controlled burn by the crawfish farm on 1289, and that is not the correct fire.
00:24
791.
00:29
791.
00:34
For your information, this is not the catfish farm.
00:48
46 to brush 45, where you want me to come in at?
00:55
We have not found the fire yet. Come on around 1289. We'll let you know when we get here.
01:02
Trash 40, Tanger 46, Claire.
01:10
792 to Tanger 793.
01:15
793. Hey,
01:17
when we get up there, if this fire is where I think it is, you're going to set the stage out on the highway just past Coloma Road on the right.
01:29
That's right from today.
01:34
44. 792 dispatch.
01:41
Do you have a control burn called in by a (name withheld)?
01:54
That's affirmative at the crawfish farm.
02:01
Goalfish farms. Do you do have one called in by him?
02:07
That's affirmative.
02:13
792 dispatch. I'm unable to reach him by public service. Did he call in and say was out of control or not?
02:22
Negative. There's a separate fire.
02:29
Bush 45, Finger 46.
02:32
You have one of our firefighters at the gate stage on the road. Do not come in.
02:40
That's clear. I just turned on 1289 from 2.38.
02:48
That's 524 S.O.
02:50
524.
02:52
524.
02:55
Yes, ma'am, I just got off the phone with (name withheld), the one they called it in and he said everything is 10.4, that's a control burn.
03:05
There's a second fire in the area.
03:07
Even Brush 1, Fort LaVoccas stated that the farm, the fire they were at was not at the crawfish farm.
03:18
Is there a separate, two separate farms, is there a cross fish farm and a redfish farm?
03:26
7,00 of Macbeach Units.
03:28
Dylan,
03:29
I'm only aware of the old catfish farms that are right here on the highway and then cut (name withheld) farms in the back.
03:35
There's the other ones up there on 238,
03:39
but the only crawfish farm I know of is (name withheld).
03:44
Yeah, because this is not up by the catfish, the other fish farms at all.
03:49
This is almost down to Coloma Creek.
03:54
So (name withheld) property is a good distance off of, it's almost halfway between 316 and 1289.
04:07
700, do you want us up on there?
04:12
No, 792 to tanker. Do not come up on this levee. Do not come up on the levee. Remain out on the road.
04:20
If the Fort LaVocca Fire was trying to push me in there.
04:25
45, you may hold up back there and let's figure something out.
04:30
This best to all volunteers.
04:32
Fort LaVocca fires requesting you go to the Texas Fire Channel.
04:40
Just best to all volunteers.
04:43
Fort LaVocca fires requesting you go to the Texas Fire Channel.
04:48
Okay.
04:50
Is that V-Fire 21? We're going to have several Texas Fire channels.
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