Road closed at Ricketts Glen Park due to downed utility pole, Benton PA
Road ClosureA utility pole has fallen and wires are hanging near Red Rock Mountain in Ricketts Glen State Park. This has caused a road closure and traffic is being diverted by emergency crews managing the hazard.
Audio|Source: Luzerne County Fire and EMS
04:36
Transcript:
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County 260, if you can continue in, if you're available.
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Southern County Firmat command.
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Count...
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Can you come back and pull on the pool number that steered off and see if that comes up and I'll give you to another one end of it.
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Okay.
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G.
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9813 and then 41550.
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1040.
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1040.
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17 if you're rescue to 131. 131 command.
00:47
Yeah, go ahead.
00:50
Okay, you want us to take the bottom and divert the traffic of Pinec?
00:59
We're not traffic coming off Pinec going from the bottom of Red Rock. I don't know if we can divert both ways because that's a narrow road, you know?
01:12
Yeah, 10-4[1], there's a little arc on it. It didn't drop the wire on the road yet, but it shrewed off the top pole, top of the pool, the bottom of the pool. It's just been hanging.
01:28
28-10, 4-year-on-17-0-2.
01:34
Was that pool number good, county, or not?
01:37
10-4[1], that works, thank you.
01:43
It would be good. We probably should check traffic at the top of the mountain now because even traffic coming down is going to be impeded by it.
01:56
Southern County from Columbia 260.
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260, go off.
02:04
We're in a route to 47 at Red Rock. We'll be there in about two minutes.
02:09
Ten, four. County, 131. You guys need...
02:12
Like Milder to assist on the top? Or you're gonna... This next Milder do, be up at the park to close head down up at that area.
02:27
Yeah.
02:32
One thirty one engine calling Fairmont Chief.
02:36
Go ahead.
02:41
Keith, for the time being, do you want our engine to go up to the top and shut it down until another gets there?
02:51
No, we'll leave our engineers and send one of the other ones up over if they can.
02:56
They can get there.
03:01
Okay, yeah, ten four.
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County, do you have still one penny on the road?
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Mazuron County from 131 engine.
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131.11.
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172 degrees.
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173. When you come up 118, take Highnick Road. Highnick Road, it's a cross from trip. As soon as you come through the park, it's going to be on your right. Take Hynek Road, and then we're going to send you up to the top of the mountain,
03:31
right at the park entrance to shut it down.
03:37
Okay, we got two vehicles coming. You're going both of them up there or just one?
03:45
Just one we need to the top and then one at the bottom of Red Rock Mountain and shut everything down.
03:55
We'll take the bottom and we'll send the squad up to the top.
04:06
173 rescue to 173 squad.
04:10
Take kind that could go up to the top by the main entrance into Ricketts and close it down.
04:18
Goes the road down completely.
04:22
Copy that.
04:27
Whatever else is we do with that pool, I take him with you.
04:32
Happy that.
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10-4[1].
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[1]
10-4: Acknowledgement / Affirmative / Message received
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Location mentioned:
Ricketts Glen State Park, 695 PA-487, Benton, PA 17814
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