Farm equipment strikes guardrail on I-80 bridge
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Lasalle County IL Regional Law Dispatch
02:05
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249 Sterling, possible 1050.
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Go ahead from Thornton's gas station in Ottawa.
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10-4. Ottawa received a call around the wooded area of Dayton Bluff, maybe around I-80 and the Fox River Bridge.
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Somebody heard a loud crash but they couldn't see anything, but they.
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. . They believe there was a crash, so we're not sure which direction.
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Have no vehicle description.
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Not even sure if there is a crash.
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10-4, I'll head over in that direction.
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249, 10-4.
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10-4, 249.
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Did you advise that it was possibly on 80 or I couldn't hear you?
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We got I-80 at the Fox River Bridge in the wooded area.
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Yeah, I'll be there in just a minute or so.
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I'm checking on 80 now.
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10-4.
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Sterling, 1230, 23.
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1230, 10-4.
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Sterling, 249, I'm 10-60.
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249, 10-4.
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241, 10-4.
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249, Sterling, apparently auto received.
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Another call that somebody can see smoke in the area, so they do have fire and EMS en route.
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That's where I was going to smoke.
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I'm crossing over the bridge now.
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Over.
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Sterling 249, about to the 94 here.
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I did not see any smoke around the bridge, heading eastbound and west.
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I'm going to turn back around.
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I did see a vehicle pulled off to the side of the road just along the, just past the bridge.
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Two forty-nine, ten four.
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Two forty-one, ending signal thirty-eight, mileage enough.
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Two forty-one, ten four.
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Charlie, two forty-nine, I am going to be out with a pickup truck pulling.
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Looks like some sort of farm equipment.
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He's alongside the guardrail by the bridge.
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He's putting out some cones.
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I'll stop, talk to him.
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This looks like it might be it.
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It looks like his equipment might hit the guardrail.
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