Truck fire spills burning hay on Highway 169 near Ely, Ely MN
Fire & ArsonA truck carrying hay bales caught fire on Highway 169 near Ely, Minnesota. The burning hay spilled along the roadside and into the ditch. Emergency crews are working to put out the fire and clear the highway. A front-end loader was requested to help move the burnt hay. The highway is closed to traffic until the hay is removed and the area is safe.
Audio|Source: North St. Louis County Sheriff, Fire and Roads
06:28
Transcript:
00:00
Can you get someone at MnDOT to bring a front end loader to help clear hay bales off the highway?
00:13
Do you want the animal call?
00:17
Pardon, see one's clear the animal call.
00:19
I forgot to put myself on it.
00:22
Okay, sorry.
00:28
Tower D-R. Morse-fire at B3.
00:37
Morris-D-R.
00:38
Tower D-R.
00:44
I'm not sure if you caught the up by a couple hundred yards of burning hay along the roadside and into the ditch.
00:53
So I've already had to smoke.
00:56
And we're just working on trying to fill these tiles apart with a lot of your assistance.
01:02
Yeah,
01:06
we've got to be there getting the engine ready right now.
01:15
There might be a front end loader coming that way.
01:17
Do you need anything else? Equipment-wise?
01:22
I don't think so.
01:23
Probably just going to need an engine with some water and some people with hand tools but pull these piles apart.
01:30
He let it start dumping,
01:33
or I should say he dumped it on purpose as it was on fire to try to keep it from lightening the truck on fire, so we've just got a stretch of burning piles.
01:49
Copy. We're sending to if you need any more bodies, let me know.
01:55
Thank you.
02:08
Just turning on to Grant McMahon.
02:12
Copy that. I'm going to take off an engine two.
02:14
I left the engine six here for you.
02:17
Ten,
02:20
ten, four. I'd copy it.
02:26
For a front-end loader to help move some hay bales out of the lane, 169, not close 283, and Ely.
02:38
Reporting the state loops.
02:46
At the moment, I can't get that our loader lost being paved, so they have no access to a loader at that moment.
02:53
I can, I'll run down and see what's going on, mile post 283.
02:57
Yes, it's probably another might be the list.
03:10
434-429, FE3.
03:14
Yeah, go ahead, 429.
03:16
Yeah,
03:20
no Dusty's coming with engine two for water.
03:23
What do you want to type 4 and sit if that's got more water?
03:28
Yeah, Mikey, I'll take that.
03:30
That sounds good.
03:35
We'll start that way with the grass truck.
03:40
Good copy, and then we are going to get, we're going to offload engine two into the tanker, and then we're going to send somebody with engine two down to the river to get some refel.
03:55
Ten float.
04:00
A moment.
04:04
Yep, 10-4[1]. Oh, boy.
04:07
Well, maybe they're, hopefully there's small bills.
04:11
I'll run down.
04:12
I'm just stuffing some chicken in my mouth.
04:14
As soon as I'm done with that, I'll run down and see what's going on.
04:17
Maybe I can sneak the loader out off a corner or something like that.
04:21
We'll see.
04:24
Yeah, I'll see what you're up against, and we'll go from there.
04:26
Let me know if you need help or something.
04:29
All right, thanks.
04:35
Joppy.
04:47
Highway 169, Command.
04:52
Go ahead, command.
04:58
So we were aware of that project they had going on in Ewee.
05:01
Is there any chance that MnDOT could check for their loader out of Virginia? We're probably not going to be able to get this highway open until we get this burnt hay off of it.
05:16
I will give them another call and try to see if we can get them from Virginia.
05:24
Thank you.
05:30
A.R. C.1 to St.
05:32
Louis.
05:38
Go ahead.
05:41
A.R. C.1. One to St.
05:43
Louis?
05:44
Go ahead.
05:48
121 will be 10.8.
05:50
10.4.
05:59
Cobra 169 command.
06:04
Traffic is all stopped, right? I'm going to be heading down to highway now.
06:09
Yep, traffic is stopped.
06:10
You are good to come straight through.
06:14
Not bad.
06:18
You've got some people standing there that I just spotted just a heads up.
06:22
They'll move.
06:27
They will.
Police codes explained
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[1]
10-4: Acknowledgement (OK / Message received)
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Ely, MN 55731
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