Single occupant plane incident at La Junta Airport, La Junta CO


A single-engine plane with one occupant had an incident near La Junta Airport. The plane had about 20 gallons of fuel on board. Emergency responders arrived and the airport was notified to shut down as precautions.
Audio|Source: Crowley County Sheriff, Fire and EMS
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Transcript:
00:00
Besides the plane, are we talking?
00:01
Single engine?
00:04
Okay, from single engine, single occupant.
00:09
Copy, can you ask her how much fuel she's got on board?
00:20
She states 20 gallons.
00:24
Okay, thank you.
00:32
6-1-3-1.
00:35
Go ahead.
00:38
Take it, you're ahead of us.
00:41
I'm at the airport building.
00:46
Copy. From Ladder 4, approximately 20 gallons of fuel on the plane.
00:52
Why don't you make your way down, get a size up to what you need.
00:55
3-2 and myself are just about rodeo grounds.
01:02
Met 3-3-1.
01:10
Correction 3-1, Med 3.
01:13
Good much.
01:14
Hi,
01:16
I've got Rodney on board.
01:17
We're going to head up there.
01:20
Copy. We're just passing rodeo grounds.
01:25
Copy. Dismatch Man 3, show us on scene.
01:31
1737.
01:41
At this time, Louisville's smoke or fire, and I don't see any fuel leaking at the time.
01:51
1738.
01:53
1738.
02:10
Vagetero 6, copy, Colorado, female, and file.
02:16
Cattle 6, okay, sir.
02:22
First of Mary Adam Lincoln, Adam, Ida, Nora, Ida.
02:28
Last name of Smith, Common,
02:31
state of birth, (number withheld), O-LN-92-217, 4598.
02:49
Dispatch 3-1, show me on scene, I'll have incident command.
03:00
Oh, 1739.
03:03
1739.
03:07
And dispatch, tail, 6, copy tail number.
03:13
On bar, go ahead with a tail number.
03:16
The tail number on the plane is going to be Nora 6-1-7, Sam Paul.
03:23
I copy 1739.
03:33
All other agents, or all other responders for La Junta, staged by 6-1's red pickup at the building, please?
04:03
No worries, sir. I was just advising that the townover is returning clear both, no record.
04:10
So, Kathy.
04:14
1742.
04:32
Okay,
04:33
of course.
04:34
TAMO Park is going to get transported and Lohama is working on notifying the air traffic control, so that way we can shut down the airport.
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Location mentioned:
La Junta Airport, 30267 1st Ave, La Junta, CO 81050
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