Tree blocking lanes on Germantown Road curve

Heard on: Wilkes County NC Fire Dispatch

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This transcript is auto-generated from live dispatch audio and may be incomplete or inaccurate. It is not an official report and may change.

00:00

Moravian Falls Fire, stand by for traffic, Germantown Road.

00:10

Moravian Falls Fire, respond to the (number withheld) block of Germantown Road, reference tree in the roadway.

00:16

Moravian Falls Fire, respond to the (number withheld) block of Germantown Road, reference tree in the roadway.

00:22

Caller advises tree blocking both lanes of travel, being a curve.

00:26

Just past Cemetery Road.

00:30

And.

00:36

Com center, ready.

00:38

Ready, it follows.

00:39

Go ahead. Com center, about a block in one lane of road, hanging down over off of a bank.

00:46

It's a dead tree, it's broke all the pieces.

00:48

We're going to still need to cut part of it out of the road.

00:53

10-4, DOT's on the way.

00:55

Do you need a backhoe or is it small enough? It's just the top limbs of a dead tree.

01:01

It's hanging off of the bank.

01:03

So we'll have to.

01:04

Have a call with ours up to reach up on the bank to cut part out.

01:08

Ten four.

2026-09-23 13:57 UTC

Road Closure

Germantown Rd, Moravian Falls, NC 28654

Not official report. AI-generated from public dispatch audio. Always verify with official sources.

As discussed during the dispatch call, fire crews and DOT are responding to a reported dead tree blocking both lanes on Germantown Road near Cemetery Road, with limbs hanging from a roadside bank and requiring removal.