Semi-truck tangled in live power lines blocks road, Bowling Green KY


A semi-truck became tangled in live power lines near the parking lot of a boxing gym, blocking the road. Fire officials warned that the power lines remain energized. Traffic was blocked on Parkhurst Drive and Old Morgantown Road due to the incident.
Audio|Source: Bowling Green City Police Department
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Transcript:
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Vigumi is going to be in rail. Fire advised, needing the unit to go to Strathmore to block the roadway.
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24.
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1919.
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T31-31 Baker 52.
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302.
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302.
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I'm in the area. He's a replace here. I couldn't take you time.
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104. Hey, gore, you've gotten.
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Yeah, so far.
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175, U-104.
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And so on point you.
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34.14.
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Mega 34.
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I'm on the scene.
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Show me with this, have Parkhurst shut down for now.
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I'm blocking traffic from Old Morgantown Road.
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Okay, 24.
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175.
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Keynesop in Kentucky, L.
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Tans4.
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Number two, three,
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six, six, two, nine, five one.
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Two and four.
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Three,
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three, four, eight-fourths.
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Second, thirty-fourth, four.
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I had a note in Kat for me, the handful of lines are in the parking lot of the boxing gym. They're out of the street and we're currently working on some more lines that the semi is quite literally tangled up in.
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What's changing for?
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Thank you, 20, Hickworth.
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Thank you, 20. Thank you, 20.
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I'm in service from this and I'm around to 159 at the 17th.
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Beautiful.
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For 12, take orders.
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May for 12.
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Contact card in service.
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Yeah.
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K-4 is the 175s. Four-fourths.
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Take-fourths. Multiple units. Take-quarters, sector 34. Fire's got a device. They're advising the power lines are still hot.
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I've got the driver stain in the semi-rigs.
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Two-four.
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Take-quarters the one-sum-files.
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Council reporting.
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1924.
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Thank you, 34, please. Thank you, 34, please.
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Thank you, 34.
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Can you just let BGMU know a better way for them to get to us as via Old Morgantown Road break?
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31-167? Are you on the other side of this rig yet? And if you are, can you see if there's any additional lines down that we can't see over here?
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What's what I'm doing that? Looks like all the ones that are above and in front of the truck are still good on this side.
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Location mentioned:
Old Morgantown Rd & Parkhurst Dr, Bowling Green, KY 42101
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