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Utility pole fire near Stony Battery Rd, Lancaster PA

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Stony Battery Rd, Lancaster, PA 17601

As discussed during the dispatch call, emergency crews responded to a utility pole fire near Stony Battery Road in West Hempfield Township. The fire appeared to be spreading down the pole. Deputies and Engine 76 arrived on scene to manage the situation and block the roadway temporarily until it was safe to reopen.

Audio|Heard on: Lancaster PA Fire Dispatch Group Calls
Listen to dispatch call
01:29
Transcript:
00:00
West Hempfield Township, near Stony Battery Road for wires.
00:03
Engine Seventy-Six at Twenty-One Oh Eight.
00:05
Deputy 76, how?
00:07
Deputy 76, okay.
00:11
Caller stating the utility pole is on fire spreading down the pole.
00:18
Okay.
00:20
Can you make you 774 and Ross hold it?
00:23
Make you 774, okay.
00:26
Engine 767.
00:29
Good.
00:31
What up, County? Going to go to Oyster Point.
00:34
Come back.
00:36
You're telling us to go to Worcester Point and come back?
00:40
That's affirmative, please.
00:41
We'll go down Kayo so we can block off both sides if needed.
00:45
Copy.
00:48
County Deputy 76 there.
00:50
Deputy 76 okay on the scene 2117.
00:55
County Deputy 76,
00:58
Well it's on fire near the top.
01:00
It's peeping up and alert yet.
01:03
Stand by, let me check.
01:05
County Engine 76 on the scene.
01:08
Engine 76, okay.
01:11
Deputy 76 from county.
01:14
Good.
01:17
Dispatcher did it.
01:19
Very good. Any idea of a DTA?
01:22
Negative.
01:24
Okay.
01:26
Engine 76 deputy, you can actually open the road up.

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Stony Battery Rd, Lancaster, PA 17601

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