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Paper Lantern Sets Power Line on Fire at Intersection, Berks County PA

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Mountain Home Rd, Pennsylvania 19608

A paper lantern caught fire on a power line at the intersection of Wonderswell Road and Mountain Home Road in South Potterberg Township. The fire affected the wires but caused no sparks or power outages.

Audio|Source: Berks County and Reading Fire / EMS
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South Potterberg Township, Wonderswell Road, and Mountain Home Road, as they get a lantern, on fire, and an electric wire, station 18, engine 182, mission 181, South Petrobert Township, Merseville Road, and Mountain Home Road, as they get a lantern, one fire, and an electric wire, twenty-time.
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VARX, engine 181.
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Tangenton 181.
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The engine 181 is responding, Hornsville Road, Mount Home Road with 2.
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Tangent 181, 2012.
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Tangent 181, Park to your additional.
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Five parks.
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One call from that password by reported a, just a paper lantern,
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was floating in the air, caught on one of the wires and caught on fire.
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No walking or sparking, just fire on the wires.

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Mountain Home Rd, Pennsylvania 19608
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