Tree Down Causes Road Closure and Utility Line Damage, Lehigh County PA
Road ClosureA tree fell near Secquara Road causing cable, phone, and possibly power lines to go down. The road is closed between Shuckery and Ulrich Mill. There is also damage to a fence on a property with horses. Verizon, Blue Ridge, and MedEd were notified to address the situation.
Audio|Source: Lehigh County Police
02:45
Transcript:
00:00
All right county.
00:01
It's going to be C as in Charlie 6 over 1-3, C6 over 13.
00:08
Looks like this is either a Verizon or a Verizon pole.
00:12
I do have cable phone lines down.
00:14
I believe I also may have a power feed that goes to one of the houses down.
00:18
I can't get close enough to tell.
00:20
I'm going to give you a Med Head poll here in a second.
00:22
If you could possibly get an address for that house, Ben.
00:25
No big deal if you can't, but I know this bed at might be a little bit easier if it's just a single house.
00:31
I do have one of the closer house numbers here for you.
00:35
It looks like it's going to be near Secquara Road.
00:43
That's a house right before, it's right here in this area.
00:45
Again, I got cable, phone, and it looks like possibly power lines as well.
00:50
That was just a tree that took it down or was something else happened?
00:55
Yeah, county looks like a tree came down.
00:57
There's also a spool of some type of wire right there, like they may have been working in the area here.
01:02
That may be a fiber optic.
01:04
Secquara is going to be closed between Shuckery and Ulrich Mill.
01:08
And I also do have damage to a fence here.
01:10
It looks like they have horses on the property.
01:12
I'm going to try and come from the other end and see if I can get you an address for that.
01:16
I'm going to give Verizon a call in the meantime and go from there.
01:21
Okay county sounds good.
01:22
We're going to work on closing this off here and I'm going to work on getting you an address for the fence.
01:26
Just leave it open for now and just let Verizon and Blue Ridge know there are wires.
01:31
Their wires are across the roadway and down as well.
01:34
So Verizon Blue Ridge do I need to contact MedEd as well or no?
01:39
Yeah, county, I get meded out here as well.
01:41
I'm not going to get close enough to tell for sure.
01:43
I do see a line.
01:44
Coming off the Transformer, and it's down on the other side of this school that's sitting here.
01:49
But yeah, definitely have Med Ed come out as well, please.
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Location mentioned:
Rte 768C, Lynn Township, PA 18066
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