Downed wires and tree cause fire near Franklin St, Belchertown MA
Fire & ArsonDowned power lines and a fallen tree near Franklin Street caused a fire with visible sparking. The fire is contained to the area near the wires and is not spreading. Emergency crews are on site and will remain to monitor the situation.
Audio|Source: Belchertown Police/Fire
01:28
Transcript:
00:00
sir, just about wondering if you could provide an update for National Grid debit debit tree through and route, approximately 20 minutes.
00:08
All right. We have five wires down. Looks like we have sparking and arcing here where the wires are down.
00:13
I'm investigating a little bit further right now. It doesn't look like it's spread beyond the wires. I'll advise in the moment.
00:21
Received in regards us to the tree, is that up completely down as well there.
00:27
A line of wires along this route is down and the tree is across the driveway. We have no access to the wires or to the tree or to the fire.
00:40
Receive grid has the update.
00:46
Browler 1 is still?
00:50
Go ahead, Barlow, Sierra 1.
00:56
Franklin Street is cleared out.
00:58
DPW is headed to Azillion now.
01:01
Hurry.
01:09
Control from that tree.
01:12
So there's a fire is on the far side of the tree isolated just to where the line.
01:19
Now it doesn't appear to be spreading it in any of the state.
01:22
We'll be leaving a crew here and the rest of us will be clearing out at all.
01:27
Central copy the update.
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Location mentioned:
Franklin St, Belchertown, MA 01007
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