Tree down on power lines causes outage near School St, Lawrence MA
Road ClosureA tree fell across nearby power lines near School Street, snapping two utility poles and causing a transformer to leak mineral oil. The incident led to a power outage affecting part of the neighborhood near Gilmette School.
Audio|Source: Lawrence Fire
03:11
Transcript:
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Attention Agency, please take a response to near School St located between Richmond Court and Essex Ave for the power line down. The tree took down some live wires.
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Attention engine Ate, attention Agency, please take response to near School St located between Richmond Court and Essex Ave, power line down, a tree took down some live wires.
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38th and road, School St.
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17-16. 16. 16.
00:36
You see the tree down the line?
00:39
The P.D. said a tree down on some power lines.
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When you get there, there's a poll number.
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38's unseen.
00:52
38's unseen.
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Go ahead and see.
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38, the 901.
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38, come in.
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1195, Larry.
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Chief 1-1195.
01:14
Got a tree down across the wires, completely across the street.
01:20
Poll snapped right off.
01:22
Doesn't look like anyone's lost power.
01:26
See, we have a tree snapped across the wires.
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You're going to need the DPWL there.
01:37
Somebody's going to have to cut this tree up.
01:41
From what I can see from here, it almost is going to turn the home on his property, but I can't quite tell.
01:47
Let's see, we'll notify a supervisor and see if he wants to come out.
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238 alpha.
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Good.
02:01
Cap, the wires down, are they still hanging?
02:07
No, they're down, Larry. I got a transformer down, too, on the other side of this tree.
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Receive.
02:14
I guess we got a couple of poles snap off here, yeah, two poles down.
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38, 9, anyone?
02:30
38, commit.
02:34
Yeah, everything on the other side of School St here from the Gilmet down is power's out.
02:41
And they got likely mineral oil leaking out of this transformer. I don't believe there's any PCB. I think it's all mineral oil.
02:52
Power outage on the other side of Gilmette school and you have a leaking transformer.
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That's correct.
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Two poles down.
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Is he going to call us back with the ETA?
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Copy that.
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Near School St, Lawrence, MA 01841
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