Power outage and smoking power line near South Main St, Chatham VA
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Fire & ArsonAs discussed during the dispatch call, there is a power outage near South Main Street caused by a smoking power line. Dominion is investigating the situation and trying to identify the cause. Several calls report no power in the area.
Audio|Heard on: Pittsylvania VA Fire-Talk Group Calls
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Transcript:
00:00
We talked with Dominion, they said they had to see anything smoking over here.
00:03
We had somebody walk up and there was another line down in the street, or not down in the street, but they said it was smoking over here.
00:10
Dominion's already on the scene.
00:12
They haven't heard of anything.
00:14
Did we have any call spinning through any trees down on any of their lines anywhere? They said there was one down,
00:21
one up the road, a pretty good size one.
00:26
No, we haven't.
00:28
We lost power here, dispatch four or five times the jail's lost power.
00:33
The last thing we heard was all of South Main was out of power.
00:37
We were trying to figure it out as well.
00:40
Pencil.
00:41
They said they had the three on the line and that it's taken the line down.
00:48
So, I mean, trying to get some more information out of them.
00:51
They're on the phone with one of their people.
00:52
So I'll let you know some.
00:55
Hi, Kathy. Yeah, we've had several calls, people with no power,
01:00
South Main Street area.
01:03
Simple.
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Location mentioned:
S Main St, Chatham, VA 24531
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