Grass fire near Harmony Road causes heavy smoke and traffic, Iowa Park TX
Fire & ArsonA grass fire near Harmony Road and Highway 287 is producing heavy smoke. The smoke is causing poor visibility and traffic hazards. Law enforcement has blocked and diverted vehicles on both northbound and southbound lanes to ensure safety.
Audio|Source: Wichita Falls Area Law Enforcement
04:47
Transcript:
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Hey, are you going to be the first one on scene out there on Harmony?
00:04
Yeah, 10-4[1].
00:05
I'm just about there.
00:06
I'm coming through El Park now, and there's a lot of smoke.
00:12
10-4[1]. I think I caught word that it wasn't, the tractor was not going to be on fire.
00:16
It's just going to be the grass and the median, putting an awful lot of smoke.
00:19
It's going to be west of Harmonia.
00:20
I didn't know if y'all copied that or not.
00:24
Yeah,
00:32
four. 41, go ahead.
00:38
I'm passing Peterson Road on 287, you'll meet to stay back behind you, or you got a game plan yet? Not yet.
00:47
Not yet.
00:56
Which is past interview.
01:01
Say ya, four.
01:06
Unis, what's your ETA, Iowa Park is asking?
01:12
41 on about, 30 seconds out.
01:24
Hey, Mark I was asking if we could push traffic over to the right lane away from that smoke.
01:30
Are you already past it or did you go up and around yet? If you did, I'll catch it as I'm coming along.
01:36
No, I'm right here now.
01:39
But if somebody wants to stop there about Harmony, kind of west of the bridge,
01:45
there we can do that.
01:48
I'll go around and block it on the other side.
01:56
Stanfor, I'm gonna go to the south downside because the smoke's terrible over there.
02:02
Timpor.
02:10
Go ahead.
02:13
Are you guys gonna be the next one in line behind this on scene?
02:20
Stand four, I have two units behind me.
02:22
We're passing right for Andrew now.
02:27
Received, yeah, I'll just catch that Harmony Road traffic, and then we'll face to face what we need up here when to get there, I guess.
02:39
Are we looking at both,
02:41
walking off both north and southbound or just the one on?
02:47
Well, I'm not for sure yet.
02:49
I know Park One from Allopark asked about pushing the cars over to the right lane of the northbound and 141 is going to catch the southbound.
02:58
Got some smoke over there, so I'm fixing the on the scene here in about 30 seconds in all the five.
03:04
The north-downside could probably be all right.
03:12
Going north, going south.
03:14
I don't know, it's pretty bad.
03:21
I was just second.
03:23
Break.
03:25
Dispatch 911[2].
03:26
Show me on scene.
03:35
Good.
03:37
Okay, Iowa Park PDs got them pushed over to the right and got them holding for just a second.
03:43
141 is going to be on the southbound lane pushing traffic off of there, stopping them.
03:48
So if you want to tie in with that Alval Park unit on the northbound side with the Greg, I'll go over there and assist.
03:56
141.
04:00
Then, boys, sounds good.
04:01
We're passing over Thompson right now.
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Recainful.
04:12
Go ahead.
04:14
I will park just called and they're requesting a deputy postup at Johnson Road and have them start slowing down there that early as possible.
04:26
Sorry, hello, bro.
04:29
She said Johnson Road.
04:36
1.41.
04:39
141.
04:41
Just be advised right now we have the southbound 37 shut down completely because there's no visibility through this month.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
10-4: Acknowledgment / Message received
[2]
911: Emergency telephone number for reporting incidents
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US-287, Iowa Park, TX
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