Gas leak closes west side of bridge on Route 111, Boxborough MA
Road ClosureA high-pressure gas line was struck on the west side of the bridge on Route 111, causing a road closure and emergency response. Fire engines staged on the west side of the bridge, and an electrician working under the bridge was stopped for safety. Emergency services advised evacuation and sent an ambulance to check the area while waiting for the gas company to arrive.
Audio|Source: Boxborough Fire Dispatch
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Transcript:
00:00
Can you get a Harvard engine to respond and stage on the west side of the bridge at 111? And can you also see if Littleton has an engine available to come down 4995? And it's not just north of the 11 bridge and see if they can take a tennis reading for us.
00:22
Copy the message.
00:24
He's just by saying Harvard and Littleton.
00:31
B1 to B4.
00:38
Go ahead.
00:41
Can you bring a meter over here to the west side of the bridge?
00:46
Recease, all my way.
00:49
The advice, Chief, national grid 15 minutes out.
00:54
Repeat that.
00:58
Update from PD National Grid, 15 minutes out.
01:04
You say one five, 15?
01:08
Confirmed, one five.
01:10
Now that.
01:15
HGC, guys, looks like we have an electrician doing some work under the bridge right now.
01:21
Okay, have them stopped.
01:29
All along the Seagull.
01:37
Somebody from Right Horizons on Tosin Hill wondering if they need to evacuate.
01:41
Okay.
01:46
Notice this time.
01:49
B-27, I'm going to ask.
02:00
Good.
02:04
All I'm advising the wires are not live, but he's going to make his site safe and then evacuate.
02:12
Sounds good, thank you.
02:18
See you one to file there.
02:20
I'm done.
02:28
Just be advised, we did it confirm high-pressure gas lines struck on the west side of the bridge.
02:39
Richard.
02:42
B1 to A1. One.
02:44
One.
02:47
B1 to A1.
02:51
B1. B1 to A1.
02:58
Is you being advised? Willington just notified me if they're not available.
03:02
Can you head down on the 495, meet their turn around, stop before the bridge, walk down and see which from the breakdown lane too if we're getting reading by the bridge?
03:15
Green seems just pried to the bridge on the southbound side.
03:20
That's correct.
03:24
Greenpeace.
03:25
The electrical worker I was speaking to is just after the bridge in the ditch on the northbound side.
03:34
Backing up now.
03:36
Yeah, I have that.
03:37
I know where he is.
03:40
All right, I'm going to come in.
03:43
Good.
03:47
I heard you speaking to somebody advising Littleton's unavailable, they also just called me.
03:51
No, I'm going to call Acton or so or see if I can get another engine somewhere.
03:58
No, we're going to send our ambulance over there to check if you could just get that Harvard engine to come down to the west side of the bridge.
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Location mentioned:
MA-111, Boxborough, MA
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