Multiple vehicles stuck on icy hill near Williams Road, Chums Corner MI
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TrafficMultiple vehicles became stuck on an icy hill near Williams Road and Chums Corner. A tractor trailer and a car ended up in a ditch. Traffic is moving slowly and assistance to tow the vehicles was requested.
Audio|Heard on: Traverse Bay Area Public Safety
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05:5
Transcript:
00:00
Central Bunker, command.
00:02
Go ahead.
00:03
All right, this hill is a sheet of ice.
00:06
We need to stop traffic.
00:10
Please bounce. I know resources are limited.
00:13
Clear.
00:14
5G, 5A.
00:16
Yeah, go.
00:19
Yeah,
00:20
we're going to be hung up here on the hill for a while.
00:22
Is there any way we can come around in the oncoming?
00:26
Yeah,
00:30
light it up.
00:31
Just being cautious,
00:32
pretty always be supposed to be when we get to that.
00:35
Last hill heading down towards Williams.
00:38
Okay, full pass,
00:40
point towards Williams.
00:46
Control 70508.
00:50
6409. Go ahead.
00:53
Do you have anybody at the top of the hill walking traffic?
00:59
Are you in your challenge by chance?
01:02
We don't see anybody.
01:03
We are just right up across the chums diverting right turn traffic.
01:08
I can go check here in a second.
01:10
I'm coming in, just past Sullivan right now.
01:14
Thank you. I'm central to 7508.
01:16
That's the request from a fire opposite there.
01:20
Got you. We're going to adjust our blocking position here.
01:23
Got that.
01:25
Can you make a pass coming down by here? It is a sheet of ice.
01:31
There's a tractor trailer at the bottom of the hill by the railroad track and a car in a ditch on the north side of the road.
01:40
Traffic's flowing slow.
01:41
They've got to block off right now, but that's a sheet of ice.
01:45
I'll head down way.
01:47
I'm on my way.
01:48
Thank you. I'm on Williams and Ronnie trying to get that detour, or direct traffic up the hill, try to get that taken care of before it gets too icy and another wreck.
02:00
Copy that, 612.
02:03
By then, if you can stop in front of the deputy's vehicle, if not we can go down to the other tracks, I can bring her down to you.
02:11
Okay.
02:12
Central if next available to the officer, got a traffic complaint at Travers High as the reporting party would like contact.
02:19
Central 5A, you can put us out on Waitner.
02:24
238. Clear.
02:26
Clear. Clear, 238.
02:29
Central, 236, I can take care of that east call after I clear this.
02:33
Clear, 238, I'll keep you available.
02:39
Leilina 4.519 is at the office.
02:47
Got the 817.
02:53
Control from 7508.
02:55
7508.
03:00
About 15 cars ahead of us that are kind of stuck between the crash and chums.
03:08
Clear.
03:10
75-08, 73-94.
03:12
You can send those 15, I'll get them through.
03:15
Okay, 1455, I'm going to be clear with the report.
03:19
455, 018.
03:21
All right, they're just out of our radius from Chums Corner.
03:24
If we can make, I don't know who's close, if they can make contact with that lead element of those civilian cars and get worked around, that might be the best course of action.
03:32
Okay.
03:33
970.
03:35
Hey, get some 2-1-424,
03:38
please. Sense up, please.
03:40
Close my on-scene time.
03:42
620.
03:45
On scene time, 0757.
03:48
620.
03:50
Clear, thanks.
03:52
I did open it down both times on your hill on N Long Lake Road.
04:01
All right, I'm just coming eastbound past Bridewood and I'm gonna make a pass through everything again.
04:10
Then for our year to hill should be pretty clear for a while.
04:13
All right, I'll spin around at Foxcraft then.
04:16
Thank you.
04:19
Six-six-eight.
04:24
Go ahead.
04:29
I'm just making a detour around traffic.
04:33
Danbook.
04:34
No. Seventy-3-94.
04:41
Go on, sir.
04:43
Brickyard is en route for the tractor trailer.
04:46
Clear, thank you.
04:49
Central 947.
04:51
947.
04:53
Thank you, 424.
04:58
Lead a non-preference hook for the one in a ditch household.
05:01
It's a crossover-type vehicle.
05:03
It's about six feet off the road.
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Chums Corner, MI 49685
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