Downed live wires block roadway after extinguished fire, Ankeny IA
Downed live electrical wires blocked roads near Northeast Cottonwood Lane after a fire was reported and extinguished. Emergency crews requested barricades to close multiple roads to ensure safety.
Audio|Source: Polk County, Dallas County, and Warren County Public Safety and ISP
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Transcript:
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There's wires down.
00:01
If you can get people out here, they would call us that there was a fire up on the hill from the live wires.
00:06
That's since gone out, but the road is blocked by these downed wires.
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Copy.
00:19
We've been disregarded.
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I'll see you both second.
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Hold in to interrupt.
00:33
233.
00:34
233 I just took another call the problem half is now back he's in a white DMW outside I will start you another car.
00:44
Jeffrey Okay.
00:51
Cobbys is 233 on the dispute.
00:53
It's now a full dispute.
00:55
6205th, number 39,
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and your problem half is in a white BNW.
01:00
His name is Dominic.
01:06
The batch, middick 246.
01:12
246?
01:15
Clear Mercy, returning to corners.
01:24
631.
01:26
Madison County from Warren County, I won't call on.
01:32
Go ahead.
01:35
That vehicle is unoccupied and it comes back to the subject on Sycamore Street in St.
01:40
Charles.
01:44
Copy, I've advised my deputies, can you send me over the 28 information that I'll add it?
01:51
Near Northeast Cottonwood Lane, between Northeast Rainshoe Drive and Northeast Greenview Drive.
02:01
Response 1, Timeout, 0631.
02:09
We could also let the city know, maybe come out and set up some barricades.
02:13
The pole is sheared in half.
02:15
Looks like it's balancing by all the different wires it's attached to.
02:20
There's this giant wire swinging over the road and a wire down in the middle of the road.
02:26
Don't know what MidAmerican ETA is, but we probably want some barricades down here.
02:31
People aren't figuring out they can't drive down here.
02:36
Copy, do you need all directions locked?
02:42
Yeah, we'll have probably need four long, uh, six long barricades, probably what we're going to need.
02:48
We have three roads that need block.
02:51
Copy.
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Location mentioned:
NE Greenview Dr, Ankeny, IA 50021
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