Downed utility lines block westbound lane on Highway 78, Walker County AL
Road ClosureDowned utility lines including phone, cable, and power lines are blocking the westbound lane of Highway 78 near the area of Crossroads, River Road, and Sipsey Road in Alabama. The incident caused traffic lane blockage and knocked down road signs.
Audio|Source: Walker County Fire
02:37
Transcript:
00:00
Archive one to control, show me on the scene, and it's just not, if the frost, it's just passed the cross to on Highway 78.
00:06
10-4[1], this is actually going to be on Highway 78.
00:12
Just pass the Frosty on the single westbound lane.
00:18
It looks like it's the phone line.
00:23
Before possibly a phone line.
00:31
Control to Argo.
00:35
No fire, we'll hit.
00:41
Can you advise, will RPS be needed?
00:48
Negative on RPS, it's probably going to be all the Alabama power and the cable company and the telephone company.
00:58
10.4. Cancel RPS. Your advising is possibly going to be all three lines, cable,
01:04
phone,
01:05
and power. Could you confirm which lane of traffic is blocked on 78, east or west?
01:15
Right land on westbound traffic. We're checking these lines and see which one are as long as no fault the cable is.
01:24
104.
01:26
Argo.
01:31
Go ahead, Argo.
01:35
I don't know if anything's involved with Alabama Power. All the thing I see is a phone cable is laying over a power line going to some of these lines at the motels.
01:48
104, you believe that it's just going to be a phone line?
01:54
Ten-four falling and cable lines.
01:57
Ten-four.
02:06
Argo fire control.
02:14
Go ahead, Argo.
02:18
You can go ahead and notify the state that when these lines broke it pulled all the signs down right here at Crossroads, River Road, Sipsey Road.
02:32
Can you?
02:35
It took down the sign.
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10-4: Acknowledgment (Message received)
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Location mentioned:
Sipsey Rd & River Rd, Alabama 35550
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