Car strikes power pole, causes outage and tree fire

Heard on: Dallas County IA Fire Dispatch

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This transcript is auto-generated from live dispatch audio and may be incomplete or inaccurate. It is not an official report and may change.

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Be advised, we do have a pole that is leaning over with a car hitting it.

00:06

We have no power in half the city.

00:08

If you can get MidAmerican started, please.

00:11

Copy. They've already been contacted.

00:14

Copy that.

00:17

We have meter fire base from Dallas.

00:21

Go ahead.

00:23

Just for your information, there's now a tree on fire.

00:27

Copy.

00:29

Right now Desoto is going to have to respond.

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We have no power at the station.

00:32

We're trying to get our doors open.

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Copy.

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Dallas, 430 .

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Four hundred and 30 .

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Can you give me a last update, please?

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There is now a tree on fire due to the power pole.

00:55

Copy. And maybe they can't respond at this point.

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Copy. They are unable to get into their station due to power outage.

2026-10-24 05:35 UTC

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De Soto, IA

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Not official report. AI-generated from public dispatch audio. Always verify with official sources.

As discussed during the dispatch call, radio traffic reports a leaning power pole struck by a car, causing a power outage affecting about half the city in De Soto. A tree is reported to be on fire due to the damaged pole, and the local fire station is unable to open its doors because it has no power, so another nearby station may need to respond.

Car strikes power pole, causes outage and tree fire

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