Tree causes power lines and poles to fall, blocks road, Yamhill County OR
Road ClosureA tree fell across power lines along NW Cummins Rd, causing multiple utility poles to collapse. The downed live wires blocked the roadway. Fire and public works crews responded to close the road and divert traffic.
Audio|Source: Yamhill County Fire
04:15
Transcript:
00:00
The C7 copy is going to be west side Cummins south of Cummins there in those sharpest corners. They had a transformer blow, lines came down there blocking the road.
00:08
P.G. is a notified.
00:15
Hi, copy. Could you have Yem Hill come in from the other side to block traffic from the north-south side?
00:24
Never.
00:29
Wycom, engine 7 is in route, copy information.
00:31
Okay.
00:38
Wicom, he can show Heavy Rush 4-1 in route.
00:41
Heavy brush 4-1, copy, coming in from the northwest side.
00:44
It'll be south of Cummins and the F-curve.
00:50
Head-Bersh 4-1, they copy.
00:59
Wicom C7's on scene. We've got all the lines down.
01:04
Looks like a tree came across and took them all down.
01:07
I'll be out in command. I'll get up poll number as soon as I can.
01:16
Tubby, tree took all the lines down.
01:19
Will I come from Westside Command?
01:22
Go ahead.
01:28
Could you get public work in route to block the road off for us?
01:37
Copy, we wanted to block it Cummins and Meadowlake.
01:45
Okay.
01:48
Double unit C7, copy, who's on the face?
01:52
Engine 7.
01:54
Okay.
01:57
Public Works from Wycom.
01:59
Engine 7, I want you guys to go back and block so that people can go down that little triangle there.
02:09
Public Works from Wycombe. Block at the intersection.
02:19
Go ahead, Wycombe. A, first.
02:31
C7 from Heavybrush 4-1.
02:36
Go ahead.
02:40
We're going to block off the highway on the north side and send traffic down coming to reroute.
02:47
I got me. Sounds like a great point. Thank you.
03:00
And C7 Public Works has been in right.
03:06
Hi, copy, thank you.
03:09
Is there a tree down in the road also?
03:17
Negative, the tree came across the lines and took the lines down for,
03:25
from what I can see, at least three poles.
03:29
Confirming three poles involved?
03:36
From what I can see currently I can't see up around the corner yet.
03:41
Copy that.
03:47
The three poles you can see are any damage.
03:55
One appears to have the top broken off of it.
04:00
Okay.
04:06
You can show a head of breath for the email. Happy.
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NW Cummins Rd, Oregon
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