Smoke near bridge caused by mill smokestack, no fire, Stockton Springs ME
Fire & ArsonEmergency responders investigated reports of smoke near the Penobscot Narrows Bridge and found no active fire. The smoke was from a smokestack at the former Verso Mill nearby, not from a structure fire.
Audio|Source: Penobscot, Waldo, Knox County Public Safety
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Transcript:
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Tension prospect fire attendants.
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You get attention to prospect fire attendants.
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Your request to respond to Route 1 at the Penobscot Narrows Bridge for a possible structure fire.
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The plane's T's TEC at any point.
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You can see flames of smoke and the column of smoke going from one of the towers.
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Code is going to be 69, down the 10.
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The column clear.
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Zero cell 42.
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26 Waldo, go 4.
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7426.
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Back 100, go ahead.
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Show me en route to the station.
00:39
Could you page stopped and put them on standby, please?
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No, 4.
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Back 101 to Waldo.
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Can I go direct to 100?
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Here, go ahead.
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Prospect 101 to 100.
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Go ahead.
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Coming from Swansville, do you want to just meet you direct?
01:08
Um, you're probably going to want to grab the tanker if this is a structure fire.
01:17
Ten-four. Fucking 200 to Wolvercom.
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Stockton 200, standby for pay.
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Attention to stock and fire.
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Prospect 100 is your question to be on standby.
01:40
Is there responding to the narrow bridge for smoke investigation in one of the towers? Time at town at 745.
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Break, Stockton 200, go ahead.
01:50
Yeah, I don't think it's a fire in the tower among the bridge.
01:55
The tower looks fine, but there's smoke coming out of a smokestack at the former Verso Mill, which lines up with a tower.
02:06
That's probably what they're seeing.
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We've gone across it twice.
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We're going back across it again.
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(name withheld).
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Prospect 100 did you copy stock and 200th and travel.
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Copy that.
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Show me and still continue into the station until they've definitely clarified.
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No.
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Respect 114 in route to the station.
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Number 140.
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Prospect 102, Waldo, Waldo, original station.
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104.
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Dr.2 will go.
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Tool 3, go ahead.
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Dr. 2nd, 202, which is a standby for process.
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Two more.
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33, rolling.
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Okay.
03:10
POSpect 100, Waldo.
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Prospect 100, go ahead.
03:16
Yeah, per conversation with Stockton 200 on the phone,
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he can't see anything in that area.
03:23
I just have Prospect hold at the station.
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I'm just going to verify coming from the center of prospect over.
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I'll be going direct.
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10.4.
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Break all prospect units hold at.
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Prospect fire station for Prospect 100, if he verifies possibly no fire.
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Okay.
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14 copies that.
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The end and by.
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Number 14.
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14.
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14.
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12. 12.
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64 enough that's that's nice.
04:00
Okay.
04:08
13, Moldo. It's going to be code 50.
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We're out to the courthouse.
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Okay.
04:24
Crospect 100 Waldo.
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You can put out a cancel tone.
04:32
I can't find anything coming across Fort Knox Road, so it's got to be what Stockton saw the plume from the power plant in Bucksport.
04:41
Go on. Can you guys or cancel tone.
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Location mentioned:
Penobscot Narrows Bridge, U.S. Rte 1, Stockton Springs, ME 04981
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