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Fire near power lines on Hayes Road with access challengesArmstrong County PA

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Hayes, Washington Township, PA

A fire occurred near power lines and Hayes Road in Washington Township, PA. Access was difficult due to downed trees, requiring chainsaws to clear a path. Firefighters faced challenges with water supply and coordinated with the utility company to cut power for safety during firefighting efforts.

Audio|Source: Armstrong/Westmoreland Public Safety
02:44
Transcript:
00:00
You did say that you walked out of that fire from that power line, is that correct, on to Lower Hayes?
00:10
That is correct.
00:12
That lower pole where the lines hanging down, straight down, there's a road comes up over to hill right there.
00:18
You can take a buggy out that way to lower haze, but you're going to need a chainsaw. There's like three trees down that you have to cut out of your way.
00:33
We're going to have to figure something out because these buggies are empty and we're definitely going to need more water in here.
00:44
260 Chief, 190 Chief One, we have West Penn out here as well. He's probably going to need a ride up there to cut the power.
00:52
If you guys want to come out that road, we have a chainsaw.
00:55
We can come up there and maybe start back.
00:59
Okay, we'll send your buggy out that road because he's still up at the power line.
01:05
Our Polaris is empty and we're working on the K&N.
01:09
We do have two chainsaws here.
01:15
Okay, I can get 130 bush to go up and fill up a buggy if they come out that road on the Hayes Road.
01:21
He can fill a buggy that comes out there and hopefully take the West Bend guy back up in with him.
01:31
Stand for it, Pete. Hey, if you can, we're going to need some guys up here with the Indian tanks and some brinks up there all of so if you can get some people up in here.
01:41
Okay.
01:46
Chief Chief Cliff.
01:48
Yeah,
01:51
go ahead.
01:55
If you get on that lower road, it comes out around the side of the hill.
02:01
There's a couple trees you got to remove and you're going to come to another power line.
02:08
Go straight across and there's two roads. You take the lower road just a little bit and it'll make a 90 degree turn back down into the creek and up on the Hayes Road.
02:24
Okay, that'll be Ray Burns Bucky.
02:27
We're down on the lower end of this.
02:30
We're going to try to get ours turned around here.
02:33
The Polaris is empty.
02:38
We'll start straight out across here and see if we can't start removing them trees.
02:43
Let's fire by where the line's on.

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