Power lines down close Jacobsburg Rd, Northampton County PA
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Road ClosureAs discussed during the dispatch call, emergency responders closed Jacobsburg Road after power lines and a utility pole were found down near Park Lane, Cromer, and Jacobburg. The leaning transformer appeared hot, and crews were notified to handle it. The closure was needed for safety as the situation was being assessed.
Audio|Heard on: Northampton PA Law Dispatch Group Calls
Listen to dispatch call
01:41
Transcript:
00:00
Advise them that this whole system is going to be coming down and I have a bus underneath these wires.
00:06
Copy.
00:09
Thank you both.
00:11
(number withheld).
00:13
New document, please.
00:14
We got the box out from this mess.
00:16
This road is going to be closed down.
00:20
Close it down at Cromer and Jacob Spurge and White Farmhouse.
00:30
We'll go to a park there. We'll go to Park Lane.
00:37
County, I'm not here on public.
00:39
No.
00:40
You have three hours.
00:43
Thirty have five years.
00:46
I see. I see.
00:57
Do you know?
00:59
Closing roads.
01:01
I'm currently on hold trying to let them know about the road closure.
01:07
Do you have fire doing that or do you want me to?
01:10
So if I tend to take fire tied up for too long, I'm sure they have other stuff they're going to have to attend to.
01:16
The road is going to have to be closed down at Park Lane and at Cromer, and this pole is strapped up at the base.
01:22
There was no contact with it.
01:24
So the transformer,
01:25
appears hot, and it is leaning over the road.
01:29
Since I will notify META, they want to take hold of them that he pulled back at the base and to notify ten.
01:35
I will close Jacobsburg from our own person.
01:38
All right.
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Location mentioned:
Jacobsburg Rd, Pennsylvania
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