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Truck hits utility pole on Dover Road; sparks fire hazardWestwood MA

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Near Dover Rd, Westwood, MA 02090

A commercial truck struck a utility pole near Dover Rd, causing electrical arcing and sparking wires. Trees fell in the area. Emergency crews are closing the road and notifying the utility company.

Audio|Source: Westwood Fire
02:26
Transcript:
00:00
Stand by for the still alarm[1].
00:03
It's going to be ended over road.
00:14
What's the part of the company announcing a truck into a pole line? Callers are pointing arcing and sparking and trees are all... coming down as well. Again, it's the trucking to the pole,
00:32
Dover Road, arcing, sparking, and treating it down.
00:45
Car 3 west of the fire, do you know where on Dover?
00:51
9, excuse me, number withheld Dover Road, I believe.
01:01
We're supposed to fire to car at 3.
01:08
Okay, our ambulance is clear from the Norwood call. They canceled us.
01:14
Copy that. Thank you.
01:23
Okay, three, we're on, right over.
01:42
Try 3 West with fire.
01:45
What the size is in?
01:50
I've got a commercial truck took down a pole and some wires in front of number withheld. It's over.
01:57
That'll be pole number 42 and I'll need that resource on a push.
02:05
They received tractor that's in front of number withheld Dover, pole 42 will contact ever show.
02:15
Closing Dover Road at Woodland with my car.
02:19
We'll need the police on the north side up around the rock meadow to close that end.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
still alarm: Initial, lower-priority fire or medical response dispatched without full alarm assignment.

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Near Dover Rd, Westwood, MA 02090
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