Fire from tree on power lines in Houston area, Houston AK
Fire & ArsonA cottonwood tree fell across power lines at Little Meadow Creek near Houston, causing a fire with active electrical arcing. Firefighters are present but waiting for the electric company to arrive before proceeding.
Audio|Source: Mat-Su Borough Police, Fire and EMS Dispatch
04:5
Transcript:
00:00
Macon, Houston, Little Meadow Creek. Yep, Houston, on location, Little Meadow Creek. All right, phone, arriving on location.
00:23
engine to code yellow. We can't do anything until they've been doing anything here. Copy. Four inch diameter cottonwood across both lines. There is that fire, not spread anywhere. We'll downgrade the engine. Won't go to do anything until I mean.
00:37
on the kitchen mat, sir.
00:38
One is responding with two.
00:40
Last unit, low volume, go ahead.
00:48
Notcom engine 911 is on location. Engine 911 on location. What do you get a chance? Could you also update the MEA? We do still have active power, active arcing. The street is energized to the ground. We have multiple.
01:18
Parts of the tree that are on fire and possibly the base in the ground and the peat, just so they have an update on the status. Macomb copies all the active sparking and possible ground in-ground in-peat have updated them. They have the crew mobilized heading that way. I also advise them we will not be able to proceed until they get there. They just advise while en route if it does escalators start to spread.
01:46
Give them an obvious another update.
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Location mentioned:
Little Meadow Creek Rd, Houston, AK 99654
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