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Vehicle hits utility pole and leaks transformer oilKutztown PA

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Kutztown, PA 19530

A vehicle struck a utility pole and became entangled in the supporting guide wires in Kutztown, Pennsylvania. The vehicle was suspended off the ground, and a transformer on the pole was actively leaking oil.

Audio|Source: Berks County Fire and EMS - Digital
02:24
Transcript:
00:00
PIV is advising the transformer is leaking oil onto a wind stream line and the guide wire is starting to fry. Yeah,
00:09
affirmative, we're on scene.
00:11
Confirming the transformer is actively leaking.
00:15
We're people put you on location 0449. Our assistant 49.
00:25
Assistant 49. Assistant 49.
00:28
If you're on the phone with MedEG, you do advise them their vehicle is into the guide wires that's holding the pole up. So the vehicle is actively suspended from the air.
00:43
Receive and all the eyes.
00:48
He's driving 0450.
00:54
I'll see you with the rest.
00:56
Go ahead.
01:01
Ah, yeah, come up forward first from lighting.
01:08
Just getting in six. This is a quarter-nine. What's your route of travel?
01:13
We're coming on an airport, but if you're going to come in at Weaver Town Lane, I can. I'm at Old Airport at Weaver Town right now.
01:20
Yeah, could you come up Weaver Town Inn and shut it off?
01:24
We're just going to need traffic control at this point.
01:29
If you feel like 49, you put out of this, not your filming, I'll have them coming around that way as well. Philly 49, you copy that.
01:37
2049, you copy that.
01:52
I'm just going to converse with a system and see if you need it. Send by. System 49. Do we need 25?
01:59
Nope, just about to tell them they could be available.
02:05
Copy that, Ryan. Thank you.
02:09
That's a further.
02:10
Burks, deputy 251.
02:13
Deputy 251.
02:17
Paramany command.
02:19
25's available.
02:21
Company 25 available, 0452.

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Kutztown, PA 19530

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Incident Timeline

  1. Final Traffic and Utility Operations
  2. Units Released and Scene Stabilized
  3. Traffic Control and Utilities Coordination
  4. Scene Assessment: Transformer Leaking, Vehicle Suspended
  5. Entrapment and Hazards Confirmed
  6. Fire Police and Additional Units Dispatched
  7. Resident Reports Vehicle into Light Pole
  8. Initial Dispatch: Vehicle Accident Reported

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