Contractor knocks down power poles causing fire and road closure, Bay County MI
Fire & ArsonA contractor struck utility wires, causing several power poles to fall with live wires on the road. Fires started on both sides of West Side Saginaw Road, leading to road closure in that area.
Audio|Source: Bay County Public Safety, MSP, DNR
02:53
Transcript:
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Can you let them know that a contractor had the pole or had the wires and took down a couple of holes? Copy.
00:09
And they are live wires.
00:15
Negative,
00:18
we're going to do it right now.
00:24
Copy, let's take about a two to three inch line and an excavator took out in the roadway.
00:34
Okay, Kathy.
00:39
4, 5,
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6 minutes, to Lops, and 57, 5, 7,000.
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13, 16.
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3, 79.
00:55
Go ahead.
00:58
I'll go clear the second of 31.
00:59
I'll get clear the second of 31.
01:04
To be requesting the all-state position at this time.
01:07
Over.
01:10
Yeah,
01:12
we can use more traffic control.
01:19
Okay, so I'll take truck 20, four miles to Hotchkiss and wrap around Ziegler Road to Amil.
01:31
On the road, you'll be able to get to it.
01:39
Any other unit available?
01:45
Any other units?
01:46
What do you need?
01:51
29 repawning.
01:54
Head that way where do you need them?
01:58
Okay.
02:08
Emily.
02:10
Okay.
02:13
1320. 1320.
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12.
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13. 23. 24, you're clear.
02:19
13. 23.
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2.
02:24
2. Try it again.
02:31
We have lawyers down across West Side Saginaw Road.
02:35
They are hot.
02:36
We have fire on both sides in the room.
02:39
We have built the road closed off at West Side facing west,
02:46
and West Side Zaganah heading north and three-mile heading north are both still open.
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Location mentioned:
Westside Saginaw Rd & Ziegler Rd, Frankenlust Township, MI 48706
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