Car fire damages utility wires near Oxford St, Auburn MA


A car fire occurred near Oxford St in Auburn. Flames damaged overhead utility wires between Verizon poles 84 and 85. The fire was extinguished, and National Grid was contacted due to possible electrical grid damage.
Audio|Source: Oxford Police and Fire
02:27
Transcript:
00:00
Fire alarm from command.
00:03
Command,
00:05
go ahead. 602-6-0.
00:07
602-0.
00:09
602. 602.
00:11
You stop. That's on-2.
00:23
Fire is extinguished at this point, we are up.
00:27
Can you contact the National Grid for us as well? The fire from the car fire was impeaching upon the wires above it between Verizon Pole 84, and I'll get you the second pole.
00:42
Druson.
00:44
Station on 602, I'll be contacting my favor.
00:50
A command to fire one.
00:54
Command, go ahead.
01:01
Second poll is Verizon 85.
01:05
Between Verizon 85 and 84, there was flame and pinchment on all the cables.
01:12
Reese's, they'll notify them.
01:20
Station 0602, my Hibber should be there in just a couple of minutes.
01:24
He was right in the area.
01:30
Fire alarm from command.
01:34
Receive, thank you.
01:35
You can let him know if he's stuck in traffic, he can come up the westbound side.
01:41
We have a shut off.
01:43
No,
01:45
he was light through.
01:46
All set.
01:48
Command guard.
01:50
Do you have the plate number for this vehicle?
01:55
Affirmative. I have it all in there.
01:57
Received.
02:00
Fire alarm to command.
02:06
The man is answering.
02:10
It does not appear that there's any power outages in the area, correct?
02:19
I'm not reporting any power outages at this time, but there may be flame damage to the electrical grid above the car slide.
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Location mentioned:
Near Oxford St N, Auburn, MA 01501
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