Fire caused by unsecured cutout damages utility pole, Glenwood Springs CO
Fire & ArsonA fire occurred near 10th St due to a cutout that was not fully closed, causing sparking and melting of plastic. The situation was stabilized and a damaged utility pole near the location was marked for replacement.
Audio|Source: Garfield County Fire Agencies
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Transcript:
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I've established a normal open at near 10th St, that's from the 11.
00:07
104, we should be good then.
00:09
79 does best.
00:10
Hey, Alan.
00:11
Hey, Daniel, I copy that you have reestablished the normal open there at near 10th St.
00:18
Do you know a cause of that fire, outage, sparking, marking?
00:25
The dispatcher was starting too.
00:27
Yeah, I think that cutout that feeds the overhead wasn't closed all the way.
00:31
And then when our full inspector was doing his thing, it just kind of vibrated that loose and it opened up and melted the plastic on the cutout.
00:43
I'm doing so, too.
00:44
10-4[1], and he had called back in, and I tried to call him back, he put in here that he rejected a pole up the hill from that fuse.
00:55
He submits that through an app or something.
00:58
He said he flagged it that I wanted to make sure I didn't need to do any follow-up besides noted.
01:03
No, we talked to him and he showed me the poll, but he'll turn that stuff into James and then we'll, it's just a poll that we have to change it out.
01:11
Okay, so that's what I thought, but I just wanted to make sure.
01:14
Thank you.
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10-4: Acknowledgement/Message Received
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Location mentioned:
10th St, Glenwood Springs, CO 81601
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