Branch on power line causes brief transformer fire

Heard on: Fairfield CT Fire Dispatch Group Calls

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Trumbull Center, stand by.

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One six two Putnam Green Road.

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Branch touching transformer.

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Dispatch to trouble center, respond (number withheld) Putnam Green Road for the branch on transformer.

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Repeating, trouble center, respond (number withheld) Putnam Green Road for the branch on a transformer.

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Your cross streets are Long Meadow Road and Scenic Hill Road.

00:31

Map number Gulf Seven.

00:33

We are reading on Ops One.

00:34

Ten out.

00:36

Thirteen hundred.

00:38

Trouble car nine to station one.

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Car nine to station one.

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Car nine.

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Car nine.

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Just confirming, wire was on fire or the tree on fire?

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Caller stated that there was a branch on the power line touching the transformer.

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It was sparking.

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It was on fire, but the wind blew it out.

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Moving.

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Roger.

5/30/2026 09:59 AM

Fire & Arson

Scenic Hill Rd, Trumbull, CT 06611

Branch on power line causes brief transformer fire

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Fire crews were dispatched near Putnam Green Road and Scenic Hill Road in Trumbull for a branch on a power line that was touching a transformer. The branch reportedly caused sparking and a brief fire that was extinguished by the wind before responders arrived.

Branch on power line causes brief transformer fire

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