Low-voltage telephone wire knocked down in Brookhaven, Suffolk County NY
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TrafficA payloader on a flatbed truck knocked down a low-voltage telephone wire near Fort Montault Highway, Carmen Boulevard, and Old Town Road in Brookhaven. Police and Verizon were requested to respond.
Audio|Heard on: Pine Barrens Area Fire
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01:21
Transcript:
00:00
Firecom, Brookhaven 31.
00:02
We have wires down, low voltage,
00:05
telephone wire was struck by a payloader on the back of a flatbed.
00:12
It's laying in Fort Montault Highway near Carmen Boulevard and Old Town Road.
00:25
Negative County, negative phone response, but you're going to need PD and Verizon because it's right across the highway.
00:39
Okay, well, we don't make notification of Verizon.
00:41
You want me to contact the SCG for you?
00:45
Perfect circle.
00:49
104, if you want to have them check, but it looks like it's just the lower electrical wire that's down.
01:00
Okay, repeat that you came to scratchy.
01:05
Just record.
01:12
Correction County, that's the lower telephone wire, not the electric, the lower telephone wire that's down.
01:18
All right, we'll notify meeting.
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Old Town Rd, Brookhaven, NY
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