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Vehicle smoking with possible flames on I-77 shoulderMercer County WV

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I-77, West Virginia

A vehicle was smoking with possible flames on the shoulder of northbound I-77 near the 8.5 mile marker. The caller was out of the vehicle along with her son.

Audio|Heard on: Mercer County Public Safety Dispatch
Listen to dispatch call
03:5
Transcript:
00:00
Control to any available County State Union, the response I-77 northbound near 8.5 mile marker for a vehicle that is smoking on the shoulder. Caller is out beside the vehicle with her son, visible flames at this time.
00:16
May not.
00:20
2048.
00:28
Control, Princeton.
00:35
Go ahead.
00:37
I have a call.
00:39
Near West Main Street.
00:44
She is getting text from a,
00:46
what she believes is a text now number said the subjects are harassing her.
00:50
They also mention that they see her in their window.
01:01
We'll give her a call.
01:04
We'll also be advised that one of the troopers did speak with this female earlier.
01:09
She spoke to Rishimi, she called the detachment directly.
01:21
515-Routhcourt.
01:24
The cops that's leave it.
01:36
4117-7 was that north or south?
01:40
Northbound it's going to be a white GMC Denali.
01:52
417. John, 8.5, I'm not too many vehicles.
01:54
You were to call back to this.
01:58
She said she was in a white GMC Denali.
02:00
She said she could see exit 9 from where she was sitting.
02:09
Team 4 control, there's no vehicles on 77.
02:14
Between the 7.5 and the 9.
02:18
Control 410.
02:21
Go ahead.
02:22
If you're northbound, you pass the train trestle, when you make that first curve to the right, northbound, she's in that curve to the right, northbound.
02:31
Okay.
02:36
Five-one control.
02:41
Five-one.
02:43
Get any more calls on this.
02:48
The mayor's sir, she said she was at approximately eight and a half.
02:53
According to rap, she may be a little farther down,
02:56
probably around the seven, seven and a half.
02:58
But she said that she was out.
03:01
She was in a white GMC Denali.
03:04
We did have the hazards on.

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I-77, West Virginia
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