Brown SUV engine fire found to be blown motor on I-77, Charlotte NC
A brown SUV was reported smoking on I-77 northbound near Sunset Road. An adult and a toddler were standing outside the vehicle. Fire units found the engine had blown but no active fire was present.
Audio|Source: Charlotte and Mecklenburg County Fire
02:39
Transcript:
00:00
Company is responding 77 northbound near Sunset Road. We've got multiple callers on this advising a brownish SUV on fire in the engine compartment.
00:09
Multiple callers also advising that there's an adult and toddler standing outside the vehicle.
00:19
Tend is on scene, two-story house, got nothing showing, engine 10 a half the man.
00:24
Two more than 10 on scene is coming up and chose.
00:30
Alara.
00:35
Angel 14.
00:37
Do you have medic coming, correct?
00:42
In your coming routine.
00:44
Yeah, I need to step it up. I'm going to need CMPD to step it up. I got one with suicidal calls.
00:50
All right. TN414. 14.
00:57
We're ahead, south 177 from sunset.
01:01
Yeah, okay, we're just coming on under the Sydney Lane freeze.
01:09
Engine 26, ladder 24.
01:13
Let's go ahead.
01:17
We went 77 north to check the 485 merging lanes. We're going to get off the nation's Fortville Brown. We don't have anything up here.
01:29
Copy. We just arrived on scene. We've got three-car NBA[1] minor damage.
01:35
It is going to be on the 77 ramp,
01:39
south 77 ramp off of a 485 enter.
01:46
The company is in route (number withheld) Amble Drive at Republic Service.
01:51
Cross streets, hungry, growth, circle, and dead end, called in for a general alarm, no description.
02:02
26 you can clear, Larry 24 can handle.
02:09
Alarm 2, Lyra 24, page your contact.
02:12
7-0-6-1.
02:15
Difficulty breathing, (number withheld) Holloway Street. Letter 45, netic routine difficulty breathing, (number withheld) Holloway Street.
02:26
Engine 18th on stage.
02:29
I-57 northbound northbound door. Off the Sunset Road.
02:34
A brown edge of you on the side road appears to be a blown motor.
02:38
No fire, engine 28 y'all can clear.
Police codes explained
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[1]
NBA: Non-injury motor vehicle accident
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I-77, Charlotte, NC
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