Vehicle crash damages utility pole blocking road, Fayette County PA
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TrafficA vehicle crashed into a utility pole near Dinner Bell and Five Forks Road, causing it to break and fall. This resulted in downed power and communication lines, blocking the road and causing a power outage affecting a nearby residence.
Audio|Heard on: Fayette County Public Safety Dispatch
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01:44
Transcript:
00:00
Go ahead. Communication and a service for a house.
00:07
One transformer to pull across the road.
00:09
Give you a West Penn pulling them when you're ready.
00:14
Go ahead with the number.
00:17
West Penn (number withheld).
00:25
Power out in the area.
00:29
Negative. The pole shear on one side of the road with the vehicle struck it, and then there's the communications and the power entrance going across Dinnerbell–Five Forks Road to a residence.
00:39
It doesn't look like power without the residence either.
00:43
Receipts.
00:44
Is anything in the roadway?
00:47
Affirmative.
00:49
Free seats.
00:54
Howdy, 29 squaws in service returning.
00:58
Thank you.
01:03
Steve Rasky's on the scene.
01:07
15 based 15 Captain 2 112
01:14
Captain 212 Captain 2 fake eye
01:21
Captain
01:23
The line's west behind the pole that's here is not in the roadway but the wires are down but the one that sheared has got all the hot tension lines transform on it and all communications.
01:34
Recy.
01:37
Okay, we'll find out and let them know the situation also because it's going to be blocked in their access to their greenbell shed.
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Location mentioned:
Dinner Bell - 5 Forks Rd, Wharton Township, PA
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