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Fire department reports brush fire, ladder truck auction and multi-vehicle pileup with hospital transports
Summary
At the March 10 meeting the fire report noted a recent brush fire in Robinson, the sale/auction of an old ladder truck with award planned for April, and an EMS response to a pileup that transported more than 20 people to hospitals; a department speaker said, "There were 6 that... didn't make it."
During reports at the March 10 council meeting, the fire department representative (Agency official, Speaker 1) said the department did not meet the previous night because crews responded to a brush fire in Robinson that began when someone burned willow bushes. The speaker said the department sold an old ladder truck at auction and expects to award the bid at the April meeting.
On emergency medical response, the representative said crews transported more than 20 people from a pileup to hospitals and reported, in the words recorded in the transcript, "There were 6 that were, well, 6 that didn't make it." The statement is reported here as the department described it in the recorded segments; the meeting transcript does not include coroner or hospital confirmations within the provided segments.
No additional details about locations, causes, or follow-up investigations were recorded in the available segments. The council did not record further action items on the incident in the provided transcript.
