Manhole fire causes power outage in Orange County, Orange County CA


Firefighters responded to a manhole cover on Berkker Street that was smoking and had small explosions. The incident caused a local power outage and blackout. The Edison utility company was called to fix an underground electrical fault.
Audio|Source: OCFA Tac 4D - Division 1
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Transcript:
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French Cady Fire, Orchman, 66, Port Delta. Go ahead. Cany Fire is in 66. Update on conditions. The address given is the appropriate address. This is going to be for a manhole cover on Berkker Street. Jensen County's address that was observed smoking and explosions before our arrival.
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We do have a local power outage with a blackout here. If you could start Edison, we don't have a poll number or a vault number, but just use this address for location. Confirming and editing for the power outage. Can you repeat? Confirming editing for the power outage. As well as to address the previously smoking manhole cover, it's probably
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sometimes like underground fault. In fact that we're going to see if we don't need a drain response out there. That's affirmative. We can handle.
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50448 upgrade go 3. 5448, copy, upgrade. I'm just carrying fire, engine 66, we're helping. Go ahead. I have a vault number for Edison when you ready to copy. Go ahead.
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1.5.014. Again, 5105014.
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Orange County, CA
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