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Tree down on wires sparks near Columbia St and Chestnut StCohoes NY

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Chestnut St & Columbia St, Cohoes, NY 12047

A tree fell on power lines near Columbia St and Chestnut St, causing sparking and downed secondary wires that pulled the weatherhead from a nearby house.

Audio|Source: Albany County Volunteer Fire Departments
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Transcript:
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Albany County Park Control Station, respond to check area of Columbia and Chestnut. Columbia and Chestnut report of a tree down on wires sparking. Do you have a County Fire Control, closed Central Station, respond to the check area of Columbia and Chestnut, Columbia at Chestnut Street for a tree down on wire sparking. Fire control, standby is 1730.
00:18
Spassure Andrew 416 arrived.
00:23
553.772 responding.
00:25
1730.
00:27
Do you want to dispatch with a signal 15 you can return everybody?
00:33
Signal 15[1] for the wires arkin 49 Sherwood Drive while they can back in, 771.
00:42
Fire control 36-82 in service.
00:45
You're back in 1731.
00:47
You're back in 1731.
00:49
The air officer crew.
00:59
Go ahead. 722 is arriving.
01:02
1733.
01:05
I'm waiting for 440 at Harvest and Rutland for Combs.
01:09
I'm going to direct traffic away from here so we don't keep running into this issue.
01:17
372 arriving in the area at investigating.
01:20
1734.
01:21
43 is a firefighter.
01:26
Go ahead.
01:27
We're just waiting for a couple toes and we'll be able to clear out of air.
01:34
Okay.
01:39
772, fire control.
01:42
772. 772.
01:45
Do you contact National Grid?
01:52
The house on the corner of Columbia and Chestnut Street. I'll give you a number in a few minutes here.
01:57
We have secondary wires down.
02:00
Pulled the weatherhead from the house. We'll need a crew.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
Signal 15: Units may return to service; situation resolved or no further action required.

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Chestnut St & Columbia St, Cohoes, NY 12047
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