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Semi truck brakes fail on interstate with no fireWheeling WV

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Interstate 70 E, Wheeling, WV

According to the dispatch call, a semi truck on Interstate 70 east exit 5 was reported to have brakes possibly on fire. Fire department was dispatched but later canceled after confirming there was no fire, only brake failure.

Audio|Heard on: Ohio WV Law Dispatch Group Calls
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01:5
Transcript:
00:00
You can just check the area of 70 east on exit 5.
00:04
We just got a call one from the radio about a, from the bus about a school of semi whose brakes might have caught fire.
00:14
We're going to send the fire department also.
00:18
Sent four. You show me in the area.
00:21
In the area. 4-2, I think it's down here at the bottom of the ramp.
00:25
It's got it flashes on right now.
00:28
That's off.
00:33
93 dispatcher.
00:35
93.
00:37
I'll let you know.
00:39
I've got a storage unit here with a lock that's been cut.
00:43
It's number of (number withheld).
00:45
That's copy.
00:48
Fort you dispatch.
00:49
We're going to get him off the highway here,
00:51
take him over to Riesbeck's in the parking lot.
00:55
That's copy.
00:56
Does the fire department need to continue on?
00:59
I don't believe so.
01:02
That's copy.
01:04
He's saying his brakes are just not working.

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Location mentioned:
Interstate 70 E, Wheeling, WV
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