162 Sarah Pearl Road, Hampton, CT<br/>
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Approx. 1440 hours.<br/>
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Fire called in by UPS driver.<br/>
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Winds W @ 10mph, gusts to 20, 15% RH.  Fire was on south side of road.<br/>
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First Alarm:<br/>
Hampton ET-112, ET-212, Rescue 512<br/>
Mortlake ET-190, ET-290 (3000 gallons), Rescue 490, Service 190<br/>
Pomfret ET-170, ET-270<br/>
Special Call:<br/>
Chaplin ET-309, ET-209 (2500 gallons)<br/>
Scotland HT-116 (to water hole to fill tankers)<br/>
Atwood Hose HT-196<br/>
DEP Forestry<br/>
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Rural hitch dropped but not used...so close to the road they just re-filled Hampton's ET directly.  I believe that's ET-212 in the driveway, ET-112 on the street.<br/>
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Structure is beyond 100% involvement at this point.  There was more fire on the right side of the photograph, too.<br/>
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Had a decent little brush fire going.  It made some good runs when the wind gusted.<br/>
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Not bad flames for six-month old leaf litter when the wind was behind it!<br/>
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Minor spot fire, maybe 2' ahead of the main fire.  One reason to rake your lines wide on a windy day, and have someone keep policing them until the fire is out.  Today was a "Moderate" fire danger...compared to High w/ Red Flag yesterday.  Could've been fun with the gusts pushing 35mph this time the day before!
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Some Pomfret firefighters, without an engine up here yet, making a valiant effort to build a line with two shovels and a closet hook.<br/>
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Little bit of smoke.  Note the bits of crud on the lense, on a Very High or Extreme fire danger day these very well could've been embers that crossed the road.<br/>
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ET-170 refilling ET-190.  ET-190 had one of the lines off to handle the brush fire between the road and the remains of the building.  ET-270 and ET-309 had gone up ahead to handle the head of the fire.<br/>
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Bucket full of ice and bottled water.  ET-209 refilling ET-290 which ended up as a base tanker in this operation.<br/>
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ET-170 leaving after it filled up ET-190<br/>
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ET-209 leaving for water.<br/>
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Sweet!  The state brought a Bombardier.  DEP still has five of these guys in service.  Unfortunately, it never got off the trailer :(  This crew was out of the Squaw Rock Road DEP maintenance garage.<br/>
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One of the laws of forest fires, when they hit a good control line they go out.  ET-270 and ET-309 in the distance.<br/>
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Dead hemlock flaring up.<br/>
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State DEP testing their indian tanks before heading into the woods to police the fire line.<br/>
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Car 12 explaining, apparantly, that the fire was "this big..." to the WINY Radio news reporter.<br/>
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Car 296 questioning if Hampton's definition of a "road" and Atwood Hoses definition of a "road" are the same thing, something about it needing to be paved to qualify, preferably with little red things every 500'...<br/>
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Online at <a href="http://www.d90.us/fire/30_April_2010_162_Sarah_Pearl_Road_Hampton">http://www.d90.us/fire/30_April_2010_162_Sarah_Pearl_Road_Hampton</a><br/>