Electrical hazard from sparking power line at intersection, Dorchester County SC
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Fire & ArsonAccording to the dispatch call, a tree has fallen onto a power line at the intersection near Orangeburg Road and Dorchester Road, causing sparks and creating an electrical hazard outside.
Audio|Heard on: Dorchester County Fire and EMS
Listen to dispatch call
01:18
Transcript:
00:00
If you're responding to the intersection of Orangeburg Road and Dorchester Road for an outside electrical hazard on option of 1st, engine 3802 responding, Orangeburg Road and Dorchester Road for an outside electrical hazard, respond to ops 1, so I'm at 1216.
00:13
It doesn't look like your lights are on.
00:18
Copy.
00:20
From Titan, 301, engine 423.
00:28
Engine 423, you have the last 301.
00:35
Chief, we're at the intersection of the Vegas bridge and door tester.
00:37
You want to pick that up to 3-2?
00:40
That's all right, thank you.
00:43
There's 3-2, copy cancel.
00:46
Okay.
00:52
Summer Dungeon, four point three.
00:58
Four questions. We're right now.
01:00
Orangeburg, right.
01:05
So you're responsible for an outside of that school hazard.
01:08
You can all advise that there appears like something
01:11
that you cut the tree and it's possibly knocked over onto a power line, which is sparking on the ground.
01:16
Like enforcement is also out today, you're going to check it out.
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Location mentioned:
Orangeburg Rd & Dorchester Rd, South Carolina 29483
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