Lamp post near Watervliet Avenue sparks and smokes, Albany NY
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Fire & ArsonAccording to the dispatch call, units responded to a report of a city lamp post near Watervliet Avenue and Hunter Avenue/Garfield Place sparking and smoking due to an electrical short. Fire and utility services requested to assess the situation.
Audio|Heard on: Albany NY Fire Dispatch Group Calls
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Transcript:
00:00
Attention is in 7th.
00:01
2A. Alpha Response.
00:03
Near Watervliet Avenue.
00:05
It's for a complaint about a safety light post sparking.
00:09
Cross street near Hunter Avenue and Garfield Place.
00:12
Attention engine 7.
00:14
It's been 8 out for response.
00:15
Near Watervliet Avenue.
00:18
Complaint about a safety light post sparking.
00:21
Cross street near Hunter Avenue and Garfield Place.
00:24
Who wants to be 17 and 12?
00:26
Seven responding.
00:29
See, seven, seventeen thirteen.
00:30
Engine 7 is dispatch.
00:32
We've arrived in the area.
00:33
Do you have a callback number or anything further on the school?
00:37
That's correct. Stay on my.
00:39
Ending seven to dispatch.
00:40
I'm going to need DGS here and probably national grid.
00:45
Received. 1780.
00:48
We have a lamp post that's smoking and there is some kind of short in the base of it.
00:54
Everything is 1719.
00:58
5708 give me a number in a lamp post?
01:02
This is actually a city lamp post.
01:04
There's no number on it.
01:06
All right, we see.
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Location mentioned:
Watervliet Ave, Albany, NY 12206
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