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Traffic signal fixture dangling near N Clybourn Ave and N Damen AveChicago IL

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N Clybourn Ave & N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60618

As discussed during the dispatch call, a traffic signal fixture is hanging by wires and may fall near the intersection of N Clybourn Ave and N Damen Ave in Chicago. The signal lights are still working, but the fixture's stability is uncertain.

Audio|Heard on: Chicago Police Department Zone 02
Listen to dispatch call
02:34
Transcript:
00:00
Yeah, it's a traffic signal that was...it.
00:05
And it is dangling, the actual apparatus that holds the light itself.
00:12
Dangling has been held with a few wires.
00:14
You have somebody that will come in the lights otherwise are working.
00:24
Well, we can let see some saying no again and more detail.
00:32
Yeah, I was saying somebody else, but I don't know how, you know, strong these wires are that they're going to hold this, uh,
00:40
light picture of.
00:47
Okay, we'll let you know.
00:58
I got somebody keying up, but you only saying one word.
01:08
Okay, 31, we let them know.
01:10
I don't know, do you want, like,
01:13
some signs or something, you want us to hold you down on traffic over there?
01:21
They don't need no traffic control.
01:24
You know,
01:25
probably if somebody's got some tape or something so we can block off with us light, the potential to fall in.
01:36
1910 or 1920, would you like to put some tape over there or something?
01:43
Or want us to order some horses or something?
01:51
Oh, right, over.
01:58
1920, what does he have over there? I'm sorry.
02:01
Clybourn and Damen.
02:09
What's going on in Clybourn and Damen?
02:12
The fixture that holds the lights, the lenses, and whatnot for traffic control is dangling and hanging with wires.
02:22
And I don't know how strong those wires are.
02:25
I mean, it's going to,
02:26
it may give, it may not.
02:33
I'll take it right over there.

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N Clybourn Ave & N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
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