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Flooding blocks westbound highway lanes in Cary 

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I-40, Cary, NC
Radio dispatch about flooding on Interstate 40 westbound in Cary. Floodwater has covered the road and blocked all lanes. Several vehicles are stranded and some are hard to reach. Responders discuss traffic gridlock, detours, and checking on the stranded vehicles.
Audio|Source: Wake County Fire
04:51

Transcript:
We don't need any MS resources here. Both occupants of both vehicles. Just need to help getting out. They don't have any complaints. Copy. 12's in route. I've got a good ride. If we bring them down 40 West, will that work? Command from Route 20. We're at 20. We're dispatched to a separate call in this general location involving a gray Nissan Rogue. Does that fit the description on one of your vehicles? Negative. We got a dark-colored SUV, a white two-door car. There's one vehicle further down the road at the Kerry Town Boulevard exit on the westbound side, but we are unable to get to that right yet. Cover that. We'll see if we can make our way through and we'll go up there and check on that vehicle. I'm assuming that's the other call. All right, well, we got everything blocked down on the westbound side because this is flooded all the way across all the lanes. Got it up. Go ahead. Captain, they got the westbound lane another call completely shut down just prior to what I think is the call we were being dispatched to. I spoke to command on the airtack channel for the flooded roadway car. They said they can see the vehicle up ahead of us, but there's no way for us to get through westbound above it. It looks like it's just prior to the Kerry Town Parkway exit, so you would have to get off on that exit and go the wrong way on westbound 40 to get access to it. And we just got completely surrounded by EMS and PD. Which way are we going to need to go to get there? The best I can tell right now is you're going to have to go to Kerrytown Boulevard and get on 40 westbound but coming south back to the station as in the wrong direction of traffic. I'm going to try to communicate with lighter 20. Looking through the scene, it looks like they got through the roadway. They might be going to check on the car that we were dispatched to. I'll click over to their attack channel, see if I can get you some more information. All right, we're going to stand by the, was it, 291 carry panel? We'll stand by there. Got there, thank you. EMS on Tech 17. Are you on 40 West trying to get through? Yes, isn't that exciting if you were trying to get through? I think these two calls were accidentally connected and we are in fire currently stuck in traffic. Yes, you will not be able to pass. I don't, I saw you for a second. I'm trying to come meet you. I don't think, I don't know necessarily where this wreck is, but you are not going to be able to proceed down this road. (name withheld), I'm going to come and meet you real quick. Copy. For 5B. A bunch of traffic back here, gridlocked on 40 Westbound. It looks like you've gotten through the floodwater area. We were just back to a separate call for gray Nissan Rogue. If that's you ahead, are you able to find out if that vehicle where the flashers is the call? I'm trying to advise as you, too, on the best way to get to them.

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I-40, Cary, NC

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