Westbound I-70 near Higginsville fully closed due to incident, Higginsville MO


The fire department requested a full closure of westbound Interstate 70 near Highway 13 and Highway 46 in Higginsville due to an incident. Traffic is being diverted to the south outer road. Authorities have asked Higginsville police department to assist with the traffic control and coordination.
Audio|Source: Ray County Public Safety
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Transcript:
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2.97. For the fire department, we're going to have to do a hard closure on the westbound of the black hole.
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Oh.
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14 to the south outer, if you can notify hit you.
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And 297, your traffic's very broken. We copied per the fire department, doing a hard closure,
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then it was broken, and then we just copied 13 to south outer.
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The fire department needs the interstate completely closed, west side of the 46.
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We're going to have to divert at 13, at exit 49, to the south outer. The north outer is blocked. We need to divert to the south outer.
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Notify Higginsville PD as well, please.
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4297 we will handle the diverting of 70 if we can get Higginsville and county to help with the traffic lights and to get them on the south outer
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time for
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55 copies
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At the 49 now I'm going to get some 52 to get set up
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10 4. 1323 to 1.25, can you help me on 70?
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If you got somebody closed, can one of them help me on 70 to get this started?
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104 M at South Outer and 13 right now, get on the highway and put my life on and get people to merge up.
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I-70, Higginsville, MO
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