Utility pole fire with no structural damage in Mantoloking, Mantoloking NJ
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Fire & ArsonFire crews responded to a fire on wires above a utility pole near Ocean Avenue and Carrigan Street in Mantoloking, New Jersey. Firefighters checked nearby houses due to a sounding fire alarm but found no structural fire. The wires stopped burning, the scene was declared safe, and crews awaited the electric company's response.
Audio|Heard on: Point Pleasant Borough OEM/Special Events
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04:26
Transcript:
00:00
Oh, the wires on the ground are still up.
00:03
We're going to standby for a few minutes, but they need to check it out.
00:14
Chief,
00:16
are the wires still suspended at the top of the pole?
00:20
For everything still connected, it was the actual wires on fire, not the crossbars, so everything seems alright.
00:29
Fire is not the crossbar, okay.
00:36
Fourteen hundred three four eight you guys can cancel.
00:39
Thank you very much for coming out again.
00:43
Copy thanks chief.
00:49
35 votes you're responding.
00:55
County, 4204 on scene.
01:04
Page 348 canceled by fire commandant.
01:09
No.
01:15
35, make a right-on-carrigan, please.
01:17
Put yourself on that street there.
01:21
City 1400.
01:26
Got a closer address than the intersection? Stand by.
01:38
The pole is literally on the intersection, but the closest house is...
01:46
Cross from (number withheld), Ocean Ave.
01:51
911, thank you.
01:54
And if you want to be able to get close to the pole, you want the actual poll number?
02:00
Do I have the pole from just north of it?
02:09
That works.
02:17
The wire is just above the crossbar, we're all on fire.
02:25
11, can you just walk down, Carrigan?
02:28
You see, I can't tell if I can hear a fire alarm at a house or not.
02:33
Roger, someone's doing it.
02:39
We're thank you.
02:43
County, we do have a fire alarm sounding from a house around here somewhere we're trying to locate it.
02:50
Oppose.
02:57
Real quick, do you just check the houses on the, uh,
03:02
to our right,
03:04
on 35 here?
03:12
Where if one of your members just want to check the houses on the east side of 35 here?
03:20
1404 received.
03:26
7. You guys hear anything?
03:30
That's a negative.
03:34
All right.
03:40
1410, nothing either right.
03:44
Negative.
03:46
All right, check the air.
03:56
15, you guys can return.
03:58
All units that you get your crews, you can return.
04:07
Ocean County, 14-100.
04:10
14-heart.
04:14
There no activity on the pole.
04:17
Crews check the area for the alarm sounded,
04:20
silence. It's off now.
04:22
We can't locate it.
04:23
We'll be clearing up.
04:24
There's no hazards.
04:25
JCP and L just need a response.
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Location mentioned:
Ocean Ave & Carrigan Pl, Mantoloking, NJ 08738
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