Vehicle trapped between broken poles on Murray Street, Meriden CT
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TrafficAs discussed during the dispatch call, emergency crews responded to downed power lines and broken poles on Murray Street near Ridgewood Road in Meriden. Several poles were snapped, and a vehicle became trapped between them, blocking the roadway. Fire units secured the area and cleared the scene.
Audio|Heard on: Meriden Fire Operations
Listen to dispatch call
03:20
Transcript:
00:00
Snap off the base.
00:02
Wires in the roadway.
00:03
Murray Street will be impassable.
00:09
Engine two.
00:11
Car 4.
00:14
(name withheld) said (name withheld)'s friend was leaving.
00:19
Navy.
00:21
Volvo.
00:24
In between poles.
00:27
Can you have eyes on that? I don't see it from my end.
00:35
Roger, we have eyes on the vehicle.
00:36
We're going to try to make contact.
00:40
Okay, I'm going to tape this side and then clear up and see what else I can do here.
00:47
Let me know what you need.
00:49
Roger.
00:55
Engine 5, near East Main Street, CB Cruise Cleaning Services LLC.
01:03
Wires down will pull on fire.
01:08
Fire line. 2.5 responding to near East Main Street.
01:13
Roger 5, you're responding near East Main Street.
01:17
Cross Street, Center Street, Broad Street, for trees.
01:21
Def the line wires.
01:26
Fire alarm truck one.
01:33
On Applewood Drive, the house servant,
01:38
Going to near Applewood Drive.
01:39
It's going to be next to any people (number withheld).
01:43
We have the area taped off and truck ones available.
01:47
Roger.
01:49
The House near Applewood, S&T pole (number withheld), area taped off.
01:53
Truck 1, you are available.
01:57
Fire alarm from engine 4.
02:00
And I was darn?
02:04
You can make us available on those calls that we were on.
02:09
Are all the calls that you have in the pending calls? Okay.
02:16
Okay.
02:18
Let's see which one's closed that we can take.
02:21
Okay.
02:25
Fire alarm, left.
02:28
Hi, and I'm like me.
02:32
The phone I'll see on Ridgewood, Ferry Street, and then the out of use to be pulled.
02:36
Teams completely the people will see about 40s in a vehicle.
02:41
Something between the trees are fired.
02:44
Engine two,
02:51
Completely unreadable lot of interference.
02:54
Dr. Okay, thank you back.
02:58
Okay.
02:59
Fire alarm, Engine 2, how do you receive this radio?
03:04
2, perfect, loud and clear.
03:07
Okay, an update on the Murray Street, Ridgewood Road incident.
03:11
We have at least three poles snapped off by the same train reported.
03:16
And we do have a vehicle stuck between.
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This transcript is automatically generated by AI from live dispatch audio. Dispatch communications may include background noise, overlapping speakers, or rapidly evolving situations, and automated transcription may not capture all details or context.
Location mentioned:
Murray St & Ridgewood Rd, Meriden, CT 06450
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