Light pole on fire on Pennsylvania Avenue, Baltimore MD


A caller reports a single light pole on fire on Pennsylvania Avenue. The fire department is responding. The caller asks whether the pole belongs to the utility BG&E and requests they be notified because of live electricity. They discuss whether to close the street and note a unit is en route.
Audio|Source: Baltimore City Police Western District
02:10
Transcript:
Fire department responding: light pole on fire on Pennsylvania Avenue. I'm going to be calling up 1023, (name withheld) and (name withheld) in a second. Is that the departmental light pole? 6-487, it's the LAT 4th Street. It's on fire. All right, 700. Could you tell if it belongs to BG&E, if so, can we notify BG&E as well? Okay, because we have electricity there and two people already got credit because I put into them, you're busted out. If it's a BG&E pole, I'm going to need the pole number. 13, if you show me around the pension, 1725 pence. 10.4. 14, I ought to (name withheld). Does the street need to be blocked? We don't need to block any drives off, but we just need the fire department. It's going to be an electrical fire and it's the one light pole. 700. 15817 is en route. I'm not sure how long it's going to be. You can probably switch over to citywide and get an ECA. 1310.4. Appreciate you.
Fire department responding: light pole on fire on Pennsylvania Avenue. I'm going to be calling up 1023, (name withheld) and (name withheld) in a second. Is that the departmental light pole? 6-487, it's the LAT 4th Street. It's on fire. All right, 700. Could you tell if it belongs to BG&E, if so, can we notify BG&E as well? Okay, because we have electricity there and two people already got credit because I put into them, you're busted out. If it's a BG&E pole, I'm going to need the pole number. 13, if you show me around the pension, 1725 pence. 10.4. 14, I ought to (name withheld). Does the street need to be blocked? We don't need to block any drives off, but we just need the fire department. It's going to be an electrical fire and it's the one light pole. 700. 15817 is en route. I'm not sure how long it's going to be. You can probably switch over to citywide and get an ECA. 1310.4. Appreciate you.
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Pennsylvania Ave, Baltimore, MD
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