Semi-truck damages power line causing electrical hazard, Salina KS
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Fire & ArsonAccording to the dispatch call, a semi-truck parked near Market Place struck a power line, causing sparking and breaking a utility pole behind a business. Electrical and utility crews are investigating the hazard. No smoke or fire was reported and the scene is being monitored.
Audio|Heard on: Salina City Police and County Fire / EMS
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03:38
Transcript:
00:00
Electrical issue, not page 307, at near Market Place.
00:06
Electrical issue at near Market Place, point three.
00:18
This is for a minute it closed, the accidental paint press, and it closed, back to service.
00:30
Temp...
00:32
Yes, that's Quint 3, then I'll mark the place.
00:38
104, this is actually going to be a...
00:44
Semi parked over a power line causing sparking.
00:48
Reporting party is out of the truck.
00:55
Dispatch.3 is on scene.
00:57
I've got Nelson showing from the outside, got a small sandwich shop.
01:03
We'll be out for investigation.
01:05
Turn 4.
01:09
Go ahead. Did you catch dispatch traffic if it was similar that possibly backed into a power line and it was down on the truck?
01:29
Yeah,
01:35
that's negative. I got nothing from them.
01:39
Copy everything they were on the MS channel and they gave you that.
01:49
Just that, can we get energy to this location? We've got a broken off pole on the back of this business.
02:00
We'll be a callous.
02:04
Time four.
02:11
You can ride the average, you know, that we've got about 10 foot of pole broken off, but we'll need a couple crews to replace the pole.
02:31
You can let Eugen know that this ground's transformer number is 7779-9-6-7.
02:49
Acknowledgment/Message received. This rush to coin 3.
03:00
Yeah, go ahead.
03:03
Everidge's been contacted, they were advised,
03:06
and they'll be around.
03:09
Alright, thank you.
03:11
We remain on the team for a little bit.
03:14
It doesn't look like there's a hazard at this time,
03:17
but we do have this semi...
03:21
into that power line on a couple of businesses.
03:26
I don't, there's nothing smoking or anything, but we do have a couple gas lines of stuff back here as well.
03:37
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Location mentioned:
Market Pl, Salina, KS 67401
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