Semi-truck hits utility box causing pole insulator to smoke, Bristol IN


A semi-truck struck a utility box near Kesco Dr causing a utility pole insulator to smolder and produce smoke.
Audio|Source: Elkhart, Goshen & Elkhart County Police, Fire & EMS
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Transcript:
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50pd at near Costco Drive at Dynamic Packaging, Ponderosa,
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semi-truck versus a utility box.
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It's going to be NIPSCO pole number 684,
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over 945,
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have one of the...
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insulators smoldering.
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I don't know how much the image there is, but it's smoking, pretty bad.
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10.76.
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1040, do you have a 1020?
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1040? Yeah,
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I'm on Lincoln Avenue, just past the park, Franklin Park.
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1.40 dispatch, uh, it's going to be on Plymouth by Shanklin, not Lincoln.
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104. Discussion, 2,06, 104.
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104. 104. 104.
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140 dispatch.
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140 dispatch.
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10, my 40.
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I don't know how bad it's going to get, but it's going to have a continuous burn on it, smoldering.
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10 for it, and this is just for a transformer smoking, and this isn't an accident or anything, correct?
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Correct. It's one of the insulators holding one of the, well, it's not holding the wire anymore on top of the pole, that pole number I gave you.
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Location mentioned:
Near Kesco Dr, Bristol, IN 46507
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