Downed power line sparks grass fire on Highway 126
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Caldwell Parish Law Enforcement
02:35
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21 dispatch, we just had a transformer blow at Highway 126 West and John Calhoun Drive.
00:08
There's a power line down really low across 126 and it started a grass fire in the ditch.
00:26
21, Entergy might need an address close by.
00:29
If you see an address there, kind of close.
00:33
If I can get somebody with some lights on the other side, that power line's really low.
00:40
10-4, I'm gonna route to you.
00:43
I'm gonna route to you there, 21.
00:48
Address someone dial 911 .
00:50
It's (number withheld) highway 126 west.
00:55
Yeah, we're out there.
00:56
Tell you that that's the closest one.
01:00
I don't know if we can get a brush truck or something here pretty quick because it's going to spray it.
01:10
That truck just called.
01:13
Eighteen is heading downtown.
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Do you want me at 21?
01:24
Just until before that line's down, people are driving under it.
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10-4, 10-97.
01:34
17's out with you.
01:37
Can they turn right on John Calhoun?
01:41
Not really.
01:42
They can, yeah, they can go that route.
01:45
They need to turn there.
01:51
18, it's going to be a scrap iron truck.
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If you see it, he's going to have a tall, tall load.
02:00
So.
02:05
Yeah, I got him.
02:08
Cancel.
02:10
Better get turned around 1st .
02:14
Dispatch, if you got a hold of the fire department.
02:21
Four fires in a row.
02:24
Cancel.
02:26
Let them know whoever's coming, if they're coming from the Grayson area, they're gonna have to take John Calhoun and come around the loop because the line's too low for them to make it through.
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