Power poles down and road closures due to live wires, Winthrop ME
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Fire & ArsonFire and power crews responded to Stanley Road near South Road in Winthrop, Maine, where two power poles were down and smoke was coming from wires. Because the power was still live, both roads were closed until utility workers could make the area safe.
Audio|Heard on: Winthrop Ambulance, Fire & Police and Monmouth Police
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01:24
Transcript:
00:00
With up to fire units on South Road, just be advised, or there should be a male coming to speak with someone to show you.
00:10
Apparently two poles down south, on South Road, there's some smoke showing from one of the wires.
00:34
20 with it, we've got to stop the lot.
00:39
10 420. See you guys, we're probably gonna shut both roads down.
00:44
We'll put up some signage for road closure, but with unknown gas, the roads are completely blocked, we'll probably just kind of close up for the moment.
00:53
Can't four close both Stanley and south?
00:57
Correct.
00:59
It appears power is live at both locations still, so there's really no way to open the road, so we're going to close both roads down.
01:08
Time four.
01:14
Once they're up 20, I just revised I did try and get an ETA from CMP and they said they did not have one.
01:23
Thank you for trying.
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Stanley Rd, Winthrop, ME
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