Major rockslide closes highway near 7th St in New Martinsville, New Martinsville WV
Road ClosureA large rockslide has closed the highway near the intersection of Route 2 and Route 7 in New Martinsville, WV. Emergency crews are managing traffic and rerouting vehicles. Heavy equipment is needed, and the closure will last for an extended period.
Audio|Source: New Martinsville Volunteer Fire
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Transcript:
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The route is completely shut down at this time.
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Whoever gets to it's set up with DPS for traffic control, start turning some people around.
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Coffee.
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I have copy.
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254[5] from 205[7]
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254[5] from 205[7] Is this going to be an extended steam we can stop in 7 and 2[6] and stop people at the beginning if you want
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Yes, sir, this is going to be a very large rock slide.
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We're going to be extended for a while.
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If you want to go ahead to stop the 7 and 2[6], that'd be fine.
00:33
Copy that. We'll post up in 7 and 2[6] and Bill and COH[4] can establish traffic control.
00:38
That's true or not.
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209[2], go ahead.
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Copy 209[2], on scene 2119[8].
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It's that's two or five.
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Go ahead. Two or five is going to be arriving at the staging area for Route 2 and Route 7 to the bird traffic.
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Step 4, 2120[1].
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2 to 5.4. Go ahead, 54.
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We've got DOA[3] representative on the east side of this incident.
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He want to help with traffic on that side.
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He did say that he...
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His inloader is coming,
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but he's going to contact the supervisor also because he said his inloader can't handle all this.
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Copy that.
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This is a H.
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That's good.
01:29
I have a Daffian route to the 7.20 intersection.
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He's coming down, chisel finger.
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He should be there in just a few minutes for rerally traffic.
01:39
Ten more, sir, thank you.
01:41
Thank you.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
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2120: Time or unit code
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209: Unit identifier
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DOA: Department of Highways/Transportation
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COH: City or County of Highway/Highways
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254: Unit identifier
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7 and 2: Intersection of Route 7 and Route 2
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205: Unit identifier
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2119: Time or unit code
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Location mentioned:
7th St, New Martinsville, WV 26155
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