Semi-truck blocks highway 51 southbound near I-39 on-ramp, Portage WI
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TrafficA semi-truck with a loaded flatbed weighing about 25,000 pounds slid off and is fully blocking the southbound lanes of Highway 51 near the I-39 on-ramp and Super 8. Police and emergency units are coordinating traffic diversion and assistance at the scene.
Audio|Heard on: Columbia County Sheriff Dispatch
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Transcript:
00:00
Semi-slide-off just into the county fully blocking 51 southbound if you could start blithstones
00:10
Copy a semi-slide off fully blocking highway 51
00:16
dispatch Lifestar 502 is transporting two to prairie ridge two forty eight
00:30
Portage 5.
00:32
Do you know if the semi is loaded?
00:37
It appears to be a loaded flatbed.
00:40
I haven't made contact yet.
00:44
Tenforth.
00:47
Portage 5.
00:57
In contact, there's a loaded flatbed driver that's building 25,000 pounds.
01:06
245.
01:11
Hi.
01:14
Portage 5.
01:16
Lifestone is making arrangements, they'll be en route as soon as they can.
01:21
Did you need me to send that county unit to this slide-in?
01:28
If you could, yes.
01:38
8333-33. I have Portage Officer out at a semi-slide-in.
01:42
It's going to be...
01:45
at the I-39 on-ramp just past Super 8 with a fully loaded flat bed.
01:53
I do have fly zones and route they buyers blocking both lanes of traffic on Highway 1 on Highway 6th.
02:02
I'm 127 inch volts.
02:05
10-4[1]. I believe I'm going to be just into the county.
02:12
Time for returning 2252.
02:19
28 on a trailer.
02:23
Five, go ahead.
02:26
On Main (number withheld).
02:33
Again (number withheld), main, main semi-perman trailer.
02:42
Ten Fort.
02:48
Fortage.
02:51
Three, go ahead.
02:57
Traffic.
02:58
Off ramp is going to have to get diverted back onto the interstate.
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10-4: Acknowledgement/Affirmative
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Location mentioned:
New Pinery Rd, Portage, WI 53901
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