Large pine tree falls on power lines causing fire, Grand Traverse County MI
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Fire & ArsonA large pine tree fell on power lines near Kroupa Road, causing a fire. Emergency crews are responding to manage the fire and assess any damage to the power infrastructure.
Audio|Heard on: Traverse Bay Area Public Safety
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01:16
Transcript:
00:00
If you open up this primary, we've got quite a bonfire going on here.
00:04
All right, copy that.
00:07
(number withheld). 103.
00:15
A785, 708 is open.
00:16
Copy that Peninsula, Mapleton, 775, 70, OCR is open.
00:21
Copy that Peninsula, Mapleton, 775,
00:24
70F OCR open.
00:30
Yeah,
00:32
I'll let you guys know what I got going on.
00:35
I know there's a massive,
00:37
humongous pine tree that took the line down.
00:40
I don't know if there's anything broken or not.
00:43
I've been primary bouncing off the down on fire, so I'll let it over know, let you guys know.
00:49
Thanks. That's a good copy.
00:51
Thanks. Yeah, I copied most of that.
00:58
Yeah, Oberer was quite the bonfire, but I got the OCR open.
01:02
It was a humongous pine tree.
01:04
I'm surprised it broke.
01:05
I think must be a hundred foot tall.
01:08
And he had some lines to the ground, so he said something about a transformer,
01:13
so I don't know if you got broke the pole, but I'll let you know a little bit here.
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Location mentioned:
Kroupa Rd, Peninsula Township, MI 49686
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