Transformer fire brings down power lines, Stow OH

Fire & Arson

Reported: 11/5/2025 02:31 PM

Kent Rd, Stow, OH

A transformer blew near Kent Road and Hyal Road in Stow, Ohio, bringing down electrical wires and starting a small fire involving a nearby tree. Emergency services responded to the scene.

Audio|Source: Stow Police and Fire

02:11

Transcript:

00:00

So service, District 3, stuff, Kent engine, near Hyal Road at Kent Road, wires down, new no-crossed sweeps down.

00:09

Good you guys go to the down look.

00:11

The time.

00:12

Continue to Kent engine on that car off the car.

00:16

GMS and alarm for now.

00:20

Happy viz call or stated the transformer that blew is sparking. We're receiving another call for a wires fire.

00:27

Let's go out like that.

00:29

Okay.

00:31

Happy 83.

00:33

Is that the phone one?

00:36

The squad one?

00:38

Zero.

00:39

About 1733.

00:43

(number withheld)

00:44

(number withheld)

00:46

(number withheld)

00:49

This dash, there's Tower 2.

00:52

Tower 2.

00:54

Tower 2 is en route. En route, 1733.

00:59

I'm stuck in traffic, but I'm seeing my, uh... I'm seeing my second traffic, there's no power down on Kent Road, but I'm seeing the call nodes.

01:06

It's a (number withheld).

01:07

Can you get out of these started?

01:09

Copy, 1733.

01:12

Okay, 1733.

01:15

I was a metric.

01:18

(number withheld)

01:23

I can start towards Kent and Hyal from Social Street Copy break Good

01:32

Get fish.

01:36

What's the address for the wires sent a call again?

01:39

They can see sparks, no flames, fire's already en route, another caller stated a tree is on fire that they can see.

01:47

In the area of Hyal Road and the transformer blew.

01:51

She's taken.

01:53

Grabby.

01:59

(number withheld)

02:02

Wyoga Lake Road and Kent Road, Hyal Road, Kent Road,

02:05

near Kent Road.

02:09

Still 1778, Kyle County.

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