Concrete truck driver trapped by downed power lines, Wake County NC


A concrete truck driver was trapped inside his vehicle because of downed live power lines and three leaning utility poles on Capital Boulevard. Emergency responders blocked the area and waited for Duke Energy to arrive and safely handle the situation.
Audio|Source: Wake County Fire
02:35
Transcript:
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Just be advised the driver of the concrete truck is stuck in the vehicle.
00:04
He is not pinned or anything.
00:05
We've just advised him not to move until fire department's own scene reference the live wires.
00:13
Routers engine one copy.
00:19
Davey Wolf is a lot of work.
00:23
Go ahead, bring you one.
00:26
We're going to come down west towards you, in case we need to block that direction as well.
00:32
Copy.
00:38
Command.
00:40
Okay, sir.
00:43
Do me a favor.
00:44
Enter West Street from Wade to just take Glenwood and circle back around and block that side for me, please.
00:51
Copy, Leewood, come off the way to west.
00:57
Rowley-H-1's on the scene.
00:59
Sapsion West Command.
01:05
Matterful.
01:07
If you put Wait Forest Lighton 1-1, Engine 4 on the request for service,
01:13
1-2-616-C Capitol Boulevard,
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1-2-6-16 Capitol Boulevard, Suite 200.
01:25
Copy.
01:27
2-1-616 Capitol Boulevard, Engine 1-Liter 4.
01:30
Request Service, copy.
01:36
Engine 4 Latter 1.
01:39
Sorry about that, Engine 4-Ladder 1, 10-1[1].
01:46
8-4s from Riley, Engine 1 on Opts 2.
01:49
Engine 1, go ahead.
01:53
If you do not have Duke Energy and Route this location, I'm going to need them as soon as possible.
02:03
I got you there on the way.
02:07
I've got at least three power poles that are leaning over the street right now.
02:17
It's out there you need anything else.
02:21
I think it will be good right now just having the ladder block one in, that's block one in.
02:25
We're just going to need Duke Energy here before we can really do much.
02:28
I copy. I got RPD coming to you as well.
02:32
Perfect. They can assist.
02:34
We'll go blocking traffic.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
10-1: Signal weak / Unable to copy
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