Leaning damaged telephone pole at near east harrison, Swayzee IN
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TrafficA telephone pole near East Harrison was damaged in a traffic accident on October 19 and is now leaning dangerously. Duke Energy was notified and visited the site but has not returned in about a month. Repairs are needed to prevent the pole from falling.
Audio|Heard on: Wabash, Huntington, Miami and Grant Counties Public Safety
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02:6
Transcript:
00:00
Has anyone notified you guys on a pole that was hit and it's got some damage to it on Harrison?
00:11
Negative.
00:13
Um,
00:16
Claire, standby.
00:21
47 Walsh, it's going to be at near East Harrison.
00:27
I've got a telephone pole here that looks like it's been struck and it's completely destroyed, slightly bent on into a driveway.
00:38
147 17
00:44
37
00:45
37 allish
00:48
147
00:55
Apparently this poll was struck on October 19th around 6 or 7 a.m.
01:02
This was already a call started, I guess it was a traffic accident.
01:06
If we could look at that, see who the pool belongs to, and see if they can't get somebody out here to fix it, because it's starting to lean a lot more than it was, and I'm afraid it's going to fall.
01:21
1.47.
01:27
147 central.
01:30
Go ahead.
01:33
It appears on October 19th they contacted Duke Energy reference that poll.
01:37
There's no other updated information just that they have an ETA of one hour.
01:42
I'm not sure if they actually came out or not.
01:43
Can you verify whether that's its health online or power pole before I call them again?
01:52
It's going to be a telephone and internet poll, according to our CP here.
01:58
Apparently after the accident happened, Duke did come out,
02:01
marked a couple things, then dug a hole, but they haven't been out since.
02:05
It's been roughly a month now.
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Location mentioned:
E Harrison St, Swayzee, IN 46986
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