Telephone pole fire on Prospect Avenue in Rumford

Heard on: Sebago Lakes Region and Oxford County Fire and EMS

01:55

This transcript is auto-generated from live dispatch audio and may be incomplete or inaccurate. It is not an official report and may change.

00:00

Oxford RCC Rumford Fire, stand by for an electrical hazard.

00:04

(number withheld) Prospect Ave, Rumford.

00:19

Oxford RCC to Rumford Fire, respond to (number withheld) Prospect Ave area for an electrical hazard.

00:25

It's going to be a telephone pole on fire.

00:27

Level of response, time of response is 0048 .

00:31

Oxford, you can show Rumford unit 91, engine 2, rescue 1 responding.

00:41

Copy unit 91, rescue 1, engine 2, 0049.

00:49

Also advising we are already calling CMP.

00:55

Copy.

01:03

Oxford, you can show all Rumford units on scene.

01:08

Copy all run for units are on scene at 0053 .

01:19

By CMP, I do have a pole on fire at the top of the primaries.

01:24

It's going to be just down from the one that replaced earlier today.

01:33

Copy. We already advised CMP that there was pole fire.

01:37

Did you say it's not the same one from earlier?

01:43

That's affirmative, Oxford.

01:44

It's not the same as earlier.

01:46

It's a pole down, two poles down from the one they reset.

01:53

Copy. We'll update them.

2026-09-12 21:44 UTC

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Prospect Ave, Rumford, ME 04276

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As discussed during the dispatch call, fire crews in Rumford responded to a reported electrical hazard involving a telephone pole on fire near Prospect Ave. Units arrived on scene and the utility company was notified about the burning pole.

Telephone pole fire on Prospect Avenue in Rumford

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