Utility pole fire on County Road

Heard on: Westmoreland County Public Safety

01:17

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

Yeah, engine 69, repeat that.

00:06

Engine 69.

00:13

Captain 69, it looks like pole number 635.

00:17

I'm gonna get the next pool down.

00:18

I'm not able to get in close to it.

00:22

Is it gonna be West Penn? We can just notify by address.

00:27

Yeah, it's gonna be West Penn.

00:28

The top of the pool's on fire.

00:29

It looks like the transformer blew and then one of the insulators is hanging.

00:34

Okay, we'll just give them the address.

00:37

Dispatch to 59 and 11.

00:41

Okay, chief.

00:44

Dispatch, if you want to notify the Blairsville-Saltsburg School District, if they have any buses that need to come County Road into the end of their district, they're not going to be able to get this way from Fellsburg to Slickville.

01:03

It's not going to be back.

01:10

There's nothing we can do with this.

01:12

Just notify West Penn and let them know the top of the pool is smoldering.

01:16

Time for they were notified.

2026-09-09 11:34 UTC

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County Rd, Loyalhanna Township, PA

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As discussed during the dispatch call, fire crews responded to a utility pole on fire on County Road in Loyalhanna Township, between Fellsburg and Slickville. The top of the pole and a transformer appeared to be burning, and the road and school bus route may be affected while the utility company is notified.

Utility pole fire on County Road

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