Small fire and smoke from utility pole near Old Southbridge Rd, Oxford MA


A small fire with smoke was seen on a utility pole near Old Southbridge Rd, caused by a branch hitting the wires. Fire and emergency units responded, and National Grid was informed. There was no significant safety hazard reported.
Audio|Source: Oxford Police and Fire
02:7
Transcript:
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Fire alarm[1] is on. Squad one, go ahead.
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Alright, let's go to one from the on arrival.
00:03
Here is near Old Southbridge Rd.
00:05
We have a light amount of smoke, small amount of flame.
00:07
Coming from the top of the pole, there's trees and impacted the wires.
00:11
Thank you.
00:12
Portable 20, we'll have command.
00:14
Yeah, that's good to do. Rate the portable 20 out in bus for heating and we'll have command.
00:19
16-51. Command[2] call, file.
00:20
Command[2], call, file. Okay,
00:21
Microsoft. Myel, Amazon command, go ahead.
00:23
Pole Number City, National Grid, Pole 3.
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Sky Alarm, Command[2], can you go again? You're all broken up.
00:29
National Grid, poll number three will be the poll number.
00:33
Receive National Grid, Pole number three.
00:35
There's a branch that's calling on.
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I've opened one.
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Okay, I'm all right. Okay, I'm done.
00:41
Bylon, we still on deck at the rate, just one of the only small modifiers at this time.
00:46
No light safety hazard.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
Fire alarm: Fire alarm activated
[2]
Command: Incident command assumed
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Location mentioned:
Near Old Southbridge Rd, Oxford, MA 01540
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