Tree down on house causes road closure and live wires, Columbia County NY


A tree fell onto a house near Cold Soil Road, bringing down live electrical wires. Fire and utility crews have closed the road on both ends to ensure safety while crews respond to handle the hazard.
Audio|Source: Columbia County Fire
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Transcript:
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On command, can we confirm that we have to be near Cold Soil Road for the tree down on the house? Is that an alarm terminated?
00:05
BSI[1] has been terminated.
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The EIFI[2] has been terminated at this time.
00:10
Airy Command 1443.
00:13
The kind of car one at the Wilkie Bridge, 3M wires down call on command 3-2, call me 9-1-1.
00:32
Columbia 911 is on for the Connick R1.
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Columbia 911.
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This is the Connick 560 on a team.
00:38
5630 on 1545.
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1445. Okay, be advised, I have the central Hudson rep here.
00:43
He does not want this tree cut because the wires are live at this time.
00:48
So he's suggesting that we block off the road on both ends.
00:52
That's what we're going to do.
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Anchorm, one, is coming in from the county route three side.
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Myself of 5630 on the other side, and he also has notified us that he has crews en route to this location from.
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on the section Watson.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
BSI: Scene Safety/Incident Terminated
[2]
EIFI: End of Incident/False Information
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Columbia County, NY
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