Tire fire mistaken for vehicle explosion in field, Jonesboro AR
Fire & ArsonMultiple callers reported a vehicle explosion with people trapped inside. Emergency crews searched but found no vehicle fire or victims. The fire was a tire fire burning in a field near Lawson Road. No vehicles or people were involved.
Audio|Source: Jonesboro Fire
07:35
Transcript:
00:00
Caller advised there were people in the vehicle when it exploded initially.
00:04
He said there was an explosion and they are trapped in the vehicle. He did not see them get out.
00:11
Okay, let's go ahead and dispatch another truck company to that and I'm going to be en route.
00:22
Shilling you en route and I'll be another truck company out there as well.
00:36
Engine four is in the area we're attempting locate.
00:42
Office 1712.
00:44
Okay, one's going to be responded to six.
00:58
Battalion 1. AR1, Highway, South End Craighead, 407 Road, and East Lawson Road, and Stadium Boulevard.
01:07
AR1, Highway, South End Craighead, 407 Road, and East Lawson Road, and Stadium Boulevard.
01:15
Vehicle fire.
01:16
Respond on Fireground 2
01:32
Battalion 2 AR1, Highway, South End Craghead, 4-07 Road, and East Lawson Road, and Stadium Boulevard.
01:42
AR1, Highway, South End Craighead, 4-07 Road, and East Lawson Road, and Stadium Boulevard. Vehicle fire.
01:51
Respond on Fireground 2
01:58
going the highway there, air stadium are coming down.
02:04
We went Harrisburg's Stadium to Lawson.
02:07
When we got the stadium in Lawson, there was some black smoke off in the distance, but it is not a vehicle fire. It's just a pile of stuff out in the county. We're circling back around to Lawson right now. I'm going to keep looking.
02:21
Okay, we went ahead and upgrade that to an extrication with entrapment just in case, so you've got other apparatus going your way.
02:30
Check. We are about to go west on Lawson from Highway 1, see if we can locate anything.
02:37
We're unable to locate anything at all at the intersection or the little streets around.
02:45
That's here now.
02:51
Engine forward dispatch.
02:57
No vehicle fire, but we do know that looks like a tire fire in a field.
03:03
We could just face to have reached out to a brush fire,
03:07
but this caller with the vehicle fire said they were in a black Chevy Malibu and he watched this happen.
03:12
But I will give him a call back.
03:21
Take dispatch on this patch engine four is trying to get a hold of you. Engine four.
03:33
Ms.
03:35
Dexter, did you have a callback number or anything on this? We're unable to locate anything.
03:43
Yes, I responded to trucks were on fire ground one. I told him I would call the number back.
03:48
They said they watched this happen and they saw that it was a black Chevy Malibu.
03:57
Check. We also make contact with an officer here who's advising she's not find anything either. We keep looking.
04:06
I want to give the caller a call back click and all of this one now.
04:10
Check, this next, thank you.
04:14
I'm just going to go down in Culverhouse all the way to Lawson and then I'll drive Lawson up from there.
04:20
Check, we are back at Highway 1. We're going to go east on Lawson toward the city limits.
04:30
one seven ecumenical drive east two five one seven ecumenical drive east stroke respond on fire ground three
04:49
And it's south and let's where it guys are different.
04:56
Injureport, Chuck.
04:59
Chuck 4. Injpore, you find anything yet?
05:08
No, I was speaking to see if y'all are still in the neighborhood or where y'all gone.
05:14
In this morning, I called the potential caller back.
05:18
He said it is near county line, near the liquor store, but his address populated at the address in the call.
05:30
That's going to be stoppers dispatch. That's actually county line points at dimline.
05:40
This is 4 Battalion 1-2 copy.
05:46
I copy. I'm coming up Parker on the stadium right now. I'm going to head south on stadium and see what I can find.
05:57
Did you, too, swimming.
06:01
Inj. 3. You're responding to 25, 17,
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18,
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medical drive for stroke. It's going to be a 70-year-old female.
06:10
So you're responding at 1718.
06:18
One just flash.
06:26
Anyone to dispatch by round two.
06:31
Battalion 2, Battalion 2. Battalion 1.
06:38
Are you on the stadium?
06:44
Check. I'm coming up on Fire Academy now. I'm headed that way. I'm trying to get dispatch to get that county units or Southridge, they could check further south.
06:55
Engine 4, Battalion 1, we're watching Southridge units go by, head it that way right now.
07:01
Okay, good job.
07:05
Battalion 1 are we returning service?
07:12
Yeah, I'm at Firecat, if you all seen everybody stay in point here and there, right?
07:17
Check, this is not in the city, this is going to be down around PONPackage Store.
07:24
Okay, check, let's go ahead and return everybody dispatch.
07:26
All John's letter, units back in service.
07:32
All units back in service, 1719.
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