Tree limb downs electrical service line, house still powered, Bloomfield CT
Fire & ArsonA tree limb fell and damaged the electrical service line to a house near Tunxis Avenue. The wires in the front yard are down but still intact. The house remains powered, although the neutral connection is not connected. The fire department is turning off the main breaker as a precaution.
Audio|Source: Bloomfield Center Fire
03:29
Transcript:
00:00
Local fire department, standby for dispatch, 154, Tunxis Avenue. Portle-Wirestown.
00:17
Poolswood Fire Department responding to near Tunxis Avenue on a hot response. Resident reporting wires down at her mailbox in her front yard. Cross streets Terry Plains Road and Mexico Road, Infantial v. Firegun 1, your time on 2256.
00:38
Disadge, carwans respondent.
00:42
All 1 responding 2257.
00:51
Dispatch, watch you're responding with 2.
00:57
Squad 2, you're responding with 2.
01:00
On out response, near Tunxis Avenue.
01:03
Resident reporting wires down in her front yard by our mailbox. Cross streets of Terry Plains Road and Mexico Road.
01:09
You have 1-900-tunx at the corner of Brown Street, a second at 170 tunks this half, your incident Chalbby Fireground 1[1].
01:24
Dispatch, car one's off in the air.
01:28
All right, you're on scene 2,300 hours.
01:36
Dispatch 11 is on scene.
01:40
On scene, 3,300.
01:41
Car 11 on scene, 2300.
01:45
Dispatch from car one.
01:51
Gladdy. All right, for tungs is half, you can put it under control.
01:58
We have a dead limb that fell and took the house service down, but it is still intact and they still have power.
02:11
Dispatch, squad two returning.
02:13
Squad two, you're returning at 2303.
02:25
Car one.
02:27
Car one, can you repeat?
02:43
Dispatch from Car 1, near Tunxis Avenue.
02:47
We have a limb down in the yard that took down the house service.
02:53
The wires are still intact and they still have power, but the neutral is not connected.
03:01
Roger, another fiber source.
03:09
Dispatch to Tungus command?
03:13
Go ahead.
03:16
After source has been notified. I put all the details in there.
03:19
Assigned a priority three if that's okay.
03:23
Yeah, 10-4[2], that's fine, but we are shutting the main breaker off to the house.
03:29
Roger.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
Fireground 1: Fireground operations channel 1
[2]
10-4: Acknowledgment or confirmation that a message was received and understood.
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Location mentioned:
Near Tunxis Ave, Bloomfield, CT 06002
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