Live power line down after transformer explosion
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Essex County Police, Fire, and EMS - Southeast
03:58
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75, media patrol intersection 9 and 74 for power line possibly pole down in roadway creating a traffic hazard.
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(name withheld), can I get a real good fire? Can I get a real good fire? Stand by.
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Five five, hold my seat.
00:58
County dispatch, 700 and fifty-five, you are clear from the area.
01:03
Responding to your location, seventy-four by Maple Fields for a transformer blue.
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Lines are down, poles possibly broke.
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Creating a traffic hazard.
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Repeat, need more. Hackettstown Fire, need to respond.
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State Route ninety-nine, seventy-four intersection by Maple Fields for a transformer blue.
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Lines are down, possibly.
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Probably pulled down.
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Traffic is congested.
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Seventeen forty-eight.
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Zero three,
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show you responding.
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Be advised, caller stated the transformer blew,
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knocked the lines down there.
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Low hanging at this time.
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Believe it still be live.
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We are contacting National Grid at this time.
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Through that traffic, thank you.
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One B at 3303 .
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Show me arriving on scene.
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Three 303 on scene.
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Seventeen 15 .
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Three
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303 . Can you just confirm if the pole is still standing?
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They advise at this time the pole is still standing.
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We do have a primary down blocking the intersection.
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Dispatch 3303.
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Dispatch in.
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I need the road shut down on 22 and 74 on the Burgoyne Road side.
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Also, fire police to the intersection.
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This is for your advisement.
02:56
Ty PD is tied up with an arrest at this time.
03:00
We will advise your responding fire apparatus of the road closures.
03:09
Received.
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This is a radio call.
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Need a response.
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State Route 9N and 74 for transformer blew, line down, primary in the roadway, still live.
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Also requesting fire police to the scene.
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1754,
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I got a road of fire.
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Need a response.
03:44
State Route 9N and 74 intersection reported.
03:48
Power line down, primary in the roadway, live at this time.
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Also requesting fire police to the scene.
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1752, 1004.
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