Downed phone line removed from road at Premier Dr, Plano TX
A phone or fiber line was found hanging from a pole and lying on the road near Premier Dr and Parker intersection by Comerica Bank parking lot in Plano. Fire crews removed the wire from the road and coiled it in the median. The street was temporarily closed to clear the hazard.
Audio|Source: Plano Fire
01:59
Transcript:
00:00
Engine 1, we have a caller reporting wires on the ground hanging from a pole on the northwest corner of this intersection.
00:08
Looks like it's close to a Comerica bank parking mod as well.
00:12
No arcing or sparking scene.
00:23
As from engine one, we are at the intersection of Parker and Premier, just north of Parker, and we're going to shut down northbound and southbound Premier, just north of Parker, until we can resolve this wire that is laying in the roadway.
00:45
Received, do you need PD out there?
00:50
Yes, ma'am, we're going to need at least two units to block this road completely.
00:59
Dispatcham Engine 1, you can cancel PD.
01:02
This is a down phone line.
01:04
We're going to chart it at a second point,
01:08
roll it up, get it out of the roadway.
01:13
Proceed, I'll let him know.
01:18
Truck 4 on that call in the place of Engine 4, please.
01:22
Proceed, I'll swap you.
01:28
Yes, ma'am. The address is near Premier Dr.
01:36
Multiple little business complex here, near Premier Dr.
01:41
It's a couple hundred feet of, it looks like phone line or fiber table.
01:46
Fiber wire that broke in the tree limbs and came down. So we did remove it from the roadway. It's coiled up in the median.
01:54
And I'm not sure which utility you may be able to let know, but they're going to need to repair that line.
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