Car hits utility pole causing power lines down, Scranton PA
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TrafficAccording to the dispatch call, a car crashed into a utility pole near Lee Electric Supply on Hickory Street, causing the pole to break and multiple power and communication lines to fall. The injury status is unknown.
Audio|Heard on: Susquehanna, Wayne, Lackawanna, and Wyoming Counties Fire / EMS
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04:10
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Lackawanna County, dispatching 1020, respondent, rescue 1, 240 Hickory Street in the city, next to Lee Electric Supply for one-car motor vehicle accident versus pole, unknown injury, it's repeating.
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Lackawanna County, dispatching, 1020, respondent with the fire department,
00:14
240 Hickory Street, City Southside, next to Lee Electric for one-car motor vehicle accident versus a pole, unknown injury, cross-street, South Washington, Madison Avenue, 2108, operating on blue.
00:29
I'm good.
00:33
And I'll play, you can disregard.
00:37
Ten,
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four, twenty one o' nine.
00:46
Wayne County, Penn two hundred nine.
01:00
Sentu, are you available for a call in Lebanon township?
01:04
Go ahead.
01:09
Just advising there are wires down on a vehicle with the work near sparking to be a telephone or cable.
01:20
I'm sorry, thank you.
01:22
Yeah.
01:31
Second service 2110.
01:45
Wayne County Penn 2, 35B, Stevenson Spurred, Lebanon Township, 83-year-old female difficulty breathing, high heart rate, repeating.
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Wayne County, Penn 2,
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35B,
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Stevenson Spur, Lebanon Township, Cross Street, Tancock Highway, Great Bend Turnpike.
02:02
83-year-old female, difficulty breathing, high heart rate, 21-10.
02:08
522.5.22. You're arriving to the N.D.
02:18
2111.
02:36
County on 2048.
02:47
County on 248.
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From 2048.
02:58
County on, go ahead.
03:04
And Lehigh.
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Five four, you're wrapping at Lehi High.
03:08
Twenty one-thick.
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And five.
03:15
One-five. One-four.
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Four.
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I'm going to rescue one.
03:36
Take a poll number?
03:38
I'm having it.
03:41
Okay, this is the adjacent poll.
03:43
It's (number withheld) November (number withheld).
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The one that's broken is adjacent to it.
03:51
It's broken in half.
03:53
Multiple communication wires on.
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TANFOR multiple communication wires down and the pole that's broken is believed to be a PECN L.
04:06
Yes, sir.
04:08
Copy. Call them one of them.
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Location mentioned:
Hickory St, Scranton, PA 18505
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