Downed utility wires reported near Goddard Ave and Cottage St, Brookline MA

Fire & Arson

Reported: 11/4/2025 08:12 AM

Cottage St & Goddard Ave, Brookline, MA 02445

Utility wires were reported down near Goddard Avenue and Cottage Street in Brookline. The fire department responded to the scene. Support wires on pole 19 came down and have been removed from the roadway. Verizon was notified for repairs.

Audio|Source: Needham and Brookline Police / Fire

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Transcript:

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Attention engine 1. Respond to near Goddard Avenue, cross street.

00:05

For box 531, reported wires down. Attention engine 1.

00:10

Respond to near Goddard Avenue, cross street, near Cottage Street.

00:14

For box 531, reported wires down.

00:17

1112.

00:31

136 file on the new transport to the VI.

00:41

1-363-13. Fire alarm, engine 3 calling?

00:44

I'm answering 1003.

00:48

We're clear of the medical returning.

00:52

Cool,

00:53

returning.

00:54

1113.

00:57

Engine one to file off.

01:00

Fire on there's an engine one.

01:03

One's responding.

01:04

The engine one is responding. Anast 16-pass school and Hellenic College.

01:11

Appreciate her to you.

02:11

136 to file and shows off the CI.

02:14

136 to hospital 1170.

02:20

Measure 1, Pile.

02:23

Fire on me, okay, one do one.

02:26

Measure 1 is off the area.

02:29

Tengg1, you're off in the area, 1118.

02:38

First, that's command of the power.

02:42

Pallum.

02:45

Engine 2 is going to be clear, command terminated, rescue update.

02:50

Engine 2, you're clear, command terminated, rescue update.

02:54

Angel 1 to file them.

03:04

You can notify Verizon.

03:07

Pole 19, one of the support wires came down.

03:14

Notifying horizon for pull 19 with the port wires that came down.

03:24

That wire's been removed from the roadway.

03:26

Engine 1 is going to be clear, returning.

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Cottage St & Goddard Ave, Brookline, MA 02445

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