Power transformer explodes on Highway 9

Heard on: Floyddale Fire Rescue

02:10

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

10-4, we're receiving another call in reference to a blown transformer.

00:05

It's about 1 mi before Godfather's Grill, (number withheld) Highway 9 East.

00:11

How do you advise at this time?

00:18

10-4, I'm gonna go ahead and call it.

00:41

Attention, station four.

00:42

Attention, station four.

00:43

Fire department.

00:44

Reports of a transformer that exploded near (number withheld) Highway 9 East.

00:51

(number withheld) Highway 9 East.

00:53

Caller did advise 1 mi before John Sauter's Grill.

00:57

(number withheld) Highway 9 East.

01:02

This is 41, be right.

01:05

This is 41, 10-4.

01:13

Okay, we'll fire two.

01:15

Stay tight, be right.

01:17

10-4.

01:38

This is radio 17.

01:41

Radio 17, go ahead.

01:45

10-4, road.

01:47

Dispatch, we have arrived and I'm en route to Highway 9.

01:54

10-4, radio 17.

02:03

17, let crew know that we cut the breakers off in the panel box outside.

7/12/2026 06:42 PM

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SC-9, Nichols, SC 29581

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

As discussed during the dispatch call, fire crews were dispatched to a reported blown transformer near a business along Highway 9 East, about one mile before a local grill, and the responding crew later reported cutting off breakers in an outside panel box.

Power transformer explodes on Highway 9

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