Fire caused by downed power line damages fence in Mesa, Mesa AZ

Fire & Arson

Reported: 08/21/2025 07:41 PM (PDT)

Near N Williams, Mesa, AZ 85203

A downed power line sparked a fire on a neighbor's fence. The homeowner put out the fire with water. Firefighters arrived, evacuated nearby residents, and worked to fully extinguish the fire. The nearby house was not on fire, but the situation caused a temporary road closure.

Audio|Source: Mesa Police Department Red Mountain Patrol District

02:36

Transcript:
And yet, for the 909, the fire, several RPs calling in. They're saying that the power line went down, hit the fence, and now the power line's mostly in the alleyway. 23 on three. Go ahead. Do you start paying us with, please? I don't have you on a stop. 1960s, May I should be with, I should be with, I'm 24. I'm sorry, Vice 24. Okay, I don't have any units available. I'll see if Central does. I can just switch back. Okay. You can send us just topics. Control 832. Can you send the 909 an RV? Okay. I mean it's 7909. Now we have an RP saying that the house is not on fire, but the neighbor's fence is on fire. The husband sprayed it with water so it's no longer spreading. So it doesn't look like the house is on fire or that there's an active fire right now. Okay, there's still saying it's an active fire on the fence. They update it to 303 North Williams with just south of 309. Charlie 32, we're going 97 fires on scene and they are working at it currently. Copy. Charlie 33, you still go for? Go to Charlie 33, you still go for? 242-2-6-9-0-8-24. Support. Thinking 33, if units are still in route, do you have them block Williams at University, please? Charlie 35, Charlie 35. We got the neighbors just to the south getting evacuated. Fire's working the open plates right now for about out. The homeowner is not on scene yet, but they should be showing up shortly.

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for Williams Command. Yeah, I copied that, what you wrote down. I appreciate it. Thank you. Command, Battalion, 204. Okay, based on the information that I just got from Alarm, we may need to change the plan here, so I want your eyes on this, but at this point, it appears as though no one has been assigned from SRP. What they're telling me is that once somebody is assigned, which we don't have an ATA on that or a timeframe, then it would be drive time, and obviously we don't know where they're coming from. So do you feel like we need to keep our plan in place, or is there another solution that we can put in place? minute I'll talk about C.O.4 and get back, yes. Good, thanks. 60 minutes on timer 6.0. I copy 60 minutes on the timer. I'm sure that you heard that we're going to see if we come up with a plan to help mitigate this since we don't have an ETA from SRP at this point. to respond out to our scene to help us. I do believe that we have what appears to be live power on the top of this pole. The wires that we have that are down or disconnected are likely not energized because of that transformer is a step-down transformer, but the light at the top of the pole, I'm pretty confident is still alive. We're trying to come along with a plan to see if we can mitigate the fire without having SRP's safe. Yes, sir, SRP advised. This side of the street was not their area. I contacted City of Mesa utilities. They are sending a tech out with the ETA's unknown. I can help you. Thank you.

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08/21/2025 07:36 PM (PDT)

Near N Williams, Mesa, AZ 85203

2035-266. July 35, 12035, I'm sergeant to copy a 911[1] fire. It's going to be a backtards that's on fire. It's going to be a backtards that's on fire. Charlie, thank you. Control 35. Control 3-2. It's 999[2] with fire at 309 North Williams. 309 North Williams. RP's backyard is on fire, fires in route. The house is not going to be on fire. Everybody is frantic and our pay advice to evacuate. It looks like a power line fell on the house.

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08/21/2025 06:42 PM (PDT)

Near N Williams, Mesa, AZ 85203

Everybody else believes there's a one of one screaming inside the house. Working fire, make sure we have utilities in route. Copy working fire, we will get utilities in route. Engine 210, Engine 211, Medic226, and Utility 208, Fire Channel B3, Working Fire[1], 303, North Williams, Engine 210, Engine 211, Medic221, Medic226, and Utility 208, Fire Channel B3. On scene, 3.03 North Williams. We have a single-story residential hall block construction, pitch, asphalt, single roof. We have fire and smoke showing up from the backyard. Agent 206 will be assuming (name withheld) command, stationary in the cab of engine 206. Set a cue firefighters forward with the handline for search and rescue fire attack. Iron the accountability would be a pump, 206, the end of balance, a little working fire. Iron 206 on Steve. Hello. Engine 206 is on scene 303, North Williams, single-family block construction, pitch-a-fault-chingle roof. You do have fire in the back of the home. Engine 2026 can have command, command of station, and the cabin 206. Two firefighters moving forward with the handline for search for rescue. I reckon accountability at Engine 206. 4-0-2006. Go ahead. I have fire in the backyard. It is isolated to the back fence from what I can tell at this time. Command copy, as fire is isolated in the backyard, backfaces. Be aware of the power lines of the backyard as well, please. Do you have made a command? Command, go ahead. Got a pretty good vantage point from over here. I copy journalism report as well as your forward firefighter. Let me go ahead and make you fire attack, also, command. I did 26 copy. Assuming fire attack. C-7. Assuming (name withheld) Command will be both, correction, stationary, located just north, continue the mouth of the working fire. All right, C-STEPGY has (name withheld) Command, Command is stationary, just located to the north. We're going to continue the balance of the working fire. Engine 201 on the same. The home is the north. Make sure you get in all clear because there's no extension. Correction, the home for the south. I did complete a 360 on the involved house. Looks like the fire is contained in just the fence and the power pole on the south-east corner. I don't think there's any extension to the house, but there is a shed and exposure. in the backyard. Okay, just confirming that's the house for the south that I was asking for. My apologies, not the north. Cobby, you're going to the house in the south. We had a fire attack. Fire attack, go. Okay, I just want to confirm you've got a shed, a fence, and a power pole on fire, and you're operating a safe location away from the down power lines. That's an affirmative fire attack, keeping a safe distance away from the power line. We're just extinguishing the fire that's about 20 feet to the left of actual down power line. Okay, from your vantage point, I've got ladder 6 that's going to check the house to the south just to make sure we get it all clear of that, make sure we don't have any extension there. So we feel comfortable that this is isolated to the areas that we're talking about, including the power line. The light pole that's owned by the city has fallen down into the house. Alarm copy, thank you. Life complaint is outside. It says there are no weapons in the house. When we find this patient here, let's just make sure we have them in the safe spot. We'll get you guys in front of us. We'll get him right in the back of the AMBO. Medi 414 copies. Are you excited? Well, man, I'm with PRP. It looks like it's going to be 262 and 302 possibly. Just let me go if you got anything. I copy that will be inspector. Yeah, I've been in both backyards, everything was clear. We don't have any exposure issues at the time. All your fire involvement is going to be to the west side of the alleyway. Copy that. The fire involvement is to the west side of the alleyway. Commandant Battalion 204. 2024. Chris, just verify, challenge my strategy here and just verify that we are dealing with an exterior fire only. Engine 202 to the east, checking the two homes that put up to the back side of this. And then I've got minor 206 that's checking the home of the south. Okay, I copy. I'm in the backyard with engines 206. I'm verifying it is a property line fence, wooden fence that's on fire. We do have light fire infringement on a power pole in the back. We possibly have one line that's dangling. I don't believe it's going to be power, but we're just isolating the area. And we're wetting down a shed, that's by the fire. That low line that's hanging down, I copied your report. That low line, it looks like the second one down from that transformer, that is likely power, but just to confirm it's not affected the weatherhead or the drop down to the weatherhead on the house, correct? Yeah, that's correct. It's not affecting the house. Okay, and I can only see, from my vantage point, I can only see half of that line, but hanging down on the other two. Where's the other half of that line? Stand by, I will try to get a better view. It looks like the portion that's to the north is hung up in the power lines, one house north of where the fire is at. The remainder of the line is laying on the ground in the alleyway. Okay, just have your safety officer monitor the cruise, monitor that line. The higher lines are going to be 17.5, but those lower lines are definitely power. Copy, I got safety. 204-20360. Perfect. Thank you. Later, 206, Landa. Latter, 206. Go. Hey, Chief, we have an all-clear on the house of the south. No extension to any structures in the backyard of the house of the south. The only thing we have burning from our vantage point is that power pole. Okay, that's a great report. Thank you for checking that. We've got it all clear on the house to the south. No possibility for extension. That power pole that you're seeing is that located in the backyard of the house that you're in or located to the one of the north where the fire originally started? That's going to be located in the alley directly behind the dividing wall between the house where we're at and the main body of fire. There's a block wall dividing them. Okay, copy. Let me just have you remain in place for right now. Copy that G, then just confirmed the poll number is 263. That's outstanding. Poll number is 263. With that information that we got some ladder 206, just want to confirm that your crew has safe access to extinguish any fire at the bottom of our power pole, correct? Okay, I don't have a very good advantage point on it. So do we need to get either ladder 206 or engine 202 from their location to foot any fire on that power pole or are you guys good from your spot? No, I think fire in fact, if the position is our location, we don't need any other. I think we need to get the power to the power pole and finish it, it will be good.

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