Tractor-trailer tangled in utility wires, driver safe

Heard on: Kennebec, Somerset, and Waldo County Fire Departments

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00:00

Got wire tangle all up and running here, so he's on scene kind of.

00:06

We may have to, we've got calls out, but we may have to leave this and go on neighbor's home.

00:17

1328.

00:43

This is Kennebec Center.

00:47

12 on 1244.

00:54

On road brush truck 23 is returning to station.

00:57

And then we'll switch hats.

00:58

I'll be responding as Brook 409 and I've got Brook 438 with me.

01:03

We'll respond to the ambulance call.

01:06

Ten four. Is the tractor trailer operator saying in his truck or is he out of the truck? And is he standing by people up there?

01:19

The tractor trailer operator is out of the truck.

01:22

He's fine.

01:24

He's going to be there for a while getting things untangled from his drive gear.

01:29

10-4, do we have active

01:32

CMP wires?

01:35

Everything's deadheaded.

01:38

There's no connection.

01:41

Copy, thank you, Monroe 215.

8/11/2026 09:42 AM

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Kennebec Centre, 675 Western Ave, Manchester, ME 04351

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As discussed during the dispatch call, emergency crews responded near a business center along Western Avenue for a tractor-trailer that became entangled with overhead utility wires. The driver was reportedly out of the truck, uninjured, and working to free the vehicle. The wires were described as not actively connected to power.