Live electrical wire burns tree causing fire on Temple Rd, Wellesley MA

Fire & Arson

Reported: 11/3/2025 12:03 PM

Temple Rd, Wellesley, MA 02482

A live electrical wire fell onto a tree on Temple Road, causing the tree to catch fire. Emergency services and the electric company were called to the scene. The fire was mostly put out, and the road was closed near Temple Road just past Westwood until the electrical power was shut off and cleanup finished.

Audio|Source: Wellesley Police and Fire, AreaWide3, Metro Fire

02:49

Transcript:

00:00

Are you gonna be, is all the apparatus going to be tied up there? Do you want some coverage in here?

00:07

Negative, not yet.

00:08

Stand by. I want to break the assignment down in a moment, I think.

00:12

Command file on.

00:15

Fire alarm, sir, command.

00:18

Notify electric light having respond to location, we possibly have a wire involved.

00:25

Receive, sir, notifying electric light,

00:27

possibly have a wire involved, (number withheld).

00:30

Uh,

00:36

Temple Road, command of file on.

00:40

Fire alarm, fire alarm, answer again.

00:45

Now it's affirmative we do have wires involved as a wire that's burning itself into a tree.

00:52

This was caused by electricity.

00:55

I need MLP here on a rush.

01:00

Recease, sir, we're on the line with them now.

01:02

You have a wire involved and it is burning into a tree and they will be there in a rush (number withheld).

01:09

Also file on, we can break this down. I'm gonna hold myself engine one and engine five.

01:17

Receive command holding command engine one and engine five, (number withheld).

01:30

Temporo command answering.

01:32

To be advised, we did notify MLP. They're going to have someone head down,

01:39

but they're going to give us a call for within the ECA.

01:44

Okay, receive.

01:49

(number withheld) to Walthay Control.

01:56

Moldzic control, answer.

01:58

I'll be off their safety group.

02:02

Receive, ma'am.

02:09

(number withheld) and Wals at the control.

02:11

(number withheld).

02:13

(number withheld).

02:15

If you receive any calls regarding traffic, the road is going to be shut from near Temple just past Westwood. Everyone's going to have to go around.

02:26

Proceed, sir.

02:30

We're just waiting on MLP.

02:31

The bulk of the fire has been knocked down. There's no suspension right now.

02:35

Once MOP kills the power, we'll be able to finish our cleanup.

02:40

Both the virus has been extinguished, overall complete, waited for MLP to respond to see the finish at (number withheld).

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