Tree blocking roadway on General Thomas Highway

Heard on: Southampton County Fire and EMS 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.

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Newsoms Fire, Newsoms Fire, can you respond to the area of (number withheld) General Thomas Highway? (number withheld) General Thomas Highway, it's going to be near the pole plant for a tree that has fallen and it's blocking the entire roadway.

00:11

Come on page 1426.

00:14

Echo 21, this is Southampton.

00:18

Go ahead.

00:23

If they change their path, uh, a little bit of wood.

00:28

Step four in that area, yes.

00:33

Okay, you can cancel, uh, news.

00:34

I got it out of the road.

00:37

Okay, thank you so much.

00:47

This is fire.

00:48

This is fire. You can disregard the call at (number withheld) General Thomas Highway.

00:52

(number withheld) General Thomas Highway for the tree in the roadway.

00:54

You can disregard.

00:55

It has been removed.

00:56

Come on page 4029 .

01:03

Ninety six seven.

01:07

The

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tree has been removed already.

01:17

We're able to copy the last traffic.

9/6/2026 11:22 AM

Road Closure

General Thomas Hwy, Newsoms, VA 23874

Tree blocking roadway on General Thomas Highway

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As discussed during the dispatch call, fire units were dispatched to a reported tree down and blocking the entire roadway near General Thomas Highway by a pole plant. The call was later canceled after the tree was removed from the road.

Tree blocking roadway on General Thomas Highway

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