Large uncovered trench with exposed gas line on Seventh St, Berkeley CA


A large trench on Seventh St and Heinz Ave has been left uncovered after PG&E work. The trench is about four feet deep and six feet wide, with an exposed gas line inside. This creates a serious traffic hazard that requires urgent attention to barricade the area and ensure safety.
Audio|Source: Berkeley Police and Fire
02:13
Transcript:
00:00
Oh, thank you. Traffic hazard, uh,
00:02
7th and Heinz. We're going to have to call TGini out here. There's a large hole in the road.
00:11
Seventh and Heinz. Seventh and Heinz.
00:16
27, if you're able to, channel two, for dimensions.
00:24
That's two.
00:30
Is this like a pot hole?
00:35
Negative. This is like some PG&E work that they failed to cover up. It's a large trench, partially exposed, probably like a, I don't know, four foot by... 6-foot areas exposed and then in the hole is a gas line that's exposed so yeah it's a priority thing to get out here ASAP is an exposed gas line and again the hole's pretty large probably maybe four feet deep as well
01:22
I copy. So about 4 feet by 6 feet by 4 feet deep with an exposed gas sign. We will call PG&E.
01:31
Okay,
01:32
and if we have PEOs,
01:36
well maybe not PEOs, maybe we just need some progress.
01:41
I'll see how I can get out here for that.
01:45
I see 7 from 1012 that's all if I grab some payframes or signage from the corkyard.
01:55
That would be awesome, thank you.
01:59
Copy and we're out.
02:01
All right.
02:06
Both, can you touch me to the traffic hazard to copy it out to the corpard if you can try to grab some pay frames?
02:12
I copy, thank you.
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