Johnstown, 2nd alarm

[jimmnn]

A brushfire, fanned by high winds, has spread to a coal train. It is burning near Johnstown, off of Weld County Road 42, east of I-25.

Now calling for a full 2nd alarm, 2 FF's down and reporting 10 cars of the train are going.

Jim<

 

[datainmotion]

Jim,

Are they on VHF for this? And if so, is it the North or South channel? I'm just hearing routine traffic on both.

There is a rail line that crosses CR42 3 miles due south of Johnstown.

 

[jimmnn]

Jim,

Are they on VHF for this? And if so, is it the North or South channel? I'm just hearing routine traffic on both.

There is a rail line that crosses CR42 3 miles due south of Johnstown.

Mainly DTRS for this incident all units are patched on Mac-6.

Location is WCR-17 & 42.

Jim<

PS: Email me directly if you'd like like pictures from the scene, I'm getting this error message even after the file is zipped.

"Your file of 1.05 MB bytes exceeds the forum's limit of 195.3 KB for this filetype."

 

[datainmotion]

Approximate area of fire

 

[funcritter]

I haven't had the scanners on much today but I did see the train on the news. I wonder how the cars caught on fire.