Power pole down causes outage near Children's Home Road, Darke County OH
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Other Non-Crime EventA power pole was knocked down and the transformer is lying near the roadway on Children's Home Road near Route 121 in Ohio. The incident caused a power outage affecting the area. The pole was cut at ground level. Repairs may take several hours to restore power.
Audio|Heard on: W8FLH 146.790 Repeater
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03:39
Transcript:
00:00
Oh yeah, the transformer is on the ground out here,
00:04
right beside the road.
00:09
They still have it blocked off?
00:13
No, not blocked off, but they got some cones there, but you can barely see them.
00:17
If someone ain't paying attention, they're going to whack that pretty good.
00:21
Whoever hit that pole, cut it off plummet the ground.
00:25
W8FLH.
00:31
Well, you think they'd find a better way to block it off.
00:36
Well, the sheriff is not even out here no more.
00:39
And it looks like all the power's off over here still.
00:44
Yeah, it probably is.
00:48
That's not good.
00:57
Yeah,
00:58
if I know one there, you would definitely hit it.
01:02
It was like sitting over it towards the white line in the middle of, like halfway out the middle of the road.
01:14
We'll probably hear on the scanner later tonight.
01:16
Somebody hit it.
01:20
Yep.
01:22
Yeah, it's not too, uh,
01:25
where that tuned dog church place is there, uh,
01:29
not too far from there.
01:40
ADGADV. Go ahead, Dave Station.
01:45
Yeah, is that Pull and Transformer down there on the Children's Home Road?
01:53
Roger, yep, yeah, that's where, yeah, that's it.
01:56
It's like right there where you turn off of 121, go back east,
02:01
it's not too far down there where that road section of range-style houses are.
02:10
Yeah, I know.
02:12
One of those houses is mine.
02:15
And power went up.
02:16
Just when I was leaving to come to work,
02:20
my wife has found out from (name withheld) who lives out in that area too,
02:26
that they're saying it's going to be several hours before they get it back on.
02:33
Roger.
02:35
Well, the thing is, there's AES trucks over on stall road, I think it is, just looking searching for polls.
02:43
He's just creeping down the road.
02:45
I know that's probably what he's looking for.
02:50
Now, that transformer that you referred to,
02:55
that handles our whole area out there.
02:59
And during storms, it is notorious for popping a fuse link.
03:07
It's not unusual in a rainstorm for that to go out.
03:12
We haven't had this problem since I've lived out there.
03:18
All right. Yeah,
03:20
it's got the whole area dark over here, I could tell, because we usually come back through here from Greenville every couple of nights, and it's got people without power.
03:31
And, yeah, they've done a number of that pole.
03:33
They cut it from them off at the ground, and the transformers just sitting there in the middle of, almost in the middle of road.
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OH-121, Ohio
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