Parade causes temporary road closures and heavy foot traffic, Ephrata PA
Road ClosureA parade at the intersection of State St and Sunset Ave caused temporary road closures and increased foot traffic. Police managed the opening of streets and directed vehicles and pedestrians to ensure safety. The parade cleared Fulton Street and State Street areas while traffic gradually returned to normal.
Audio|Source: Lancaster County Fire and EMS - Bravo
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Transcript:
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All right, 191, 176, and I don't know, 151, if you're on Fulton Street,
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you can go ahead and open that up.
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The parade is off Fulton Street.
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191, 176, can copy.
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Operations from traffic, we are back on state.
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Copy.
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16, 324.
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324. 324. House traffic over your way.
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All right. Now, I'm getting the cones on 272.
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Copy that. 15.6.
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This is 6.
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How are you living?
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vehicle and pedestrian.
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Traffic and pedestrian are done very good.
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I got a couple of school buses here yet to come out. I don't know if I'm going to wait around for them or not.
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Do you get vehicles coming your way.
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All right, 156.
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Maybe give it another five minutes. If nothing's coming out, I'm okay if you guys clear.
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That's both 156 and 32-4.
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15-6 copies.
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171 from part of police operations.
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Can you make you 821, trackway, hello.
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UPSP list?
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171, go ahead.
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Make you 821, okay.
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What's your traffic looking like?
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Traffic is flowing, most pedestrians are through.
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Copy. Can you tell me, are the tractors still sitting on top of the hill above you?
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Ten, four tractors are on the hill.
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Yeah,
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drivers are just going up to get them. All right, 17-1. If you just want to hang out just to assist if they need any help getting down through there or anything.
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10-4[1].
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32-2 for months.
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Go ahead.
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How are you looking with pedestrian traffic?
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322.
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We've got to have decent traffic yet and pedestrians while the locks clearing out here.
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Okay.
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323, 327. How is your intersection at Maple?
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We got lots of traffic got the now, yeah.
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Copy.
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3211 from Power Policeops. Thank you very much.
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How's your area look,
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vehicle,
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pedestrian traffic?
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All pedestrian traffic is off the road and light traffic in the area.
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Copy.
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Traffic 15 from Park Police Office.
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Traffic 15 from Park Police Office.
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Operations from 1715?
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Good, 1715.
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Fire police vehicle went past sunset.
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Thank you, sir.
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171 from
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Liberation from traffic, we are done, actually, it is over.
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If you each one, okay.
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Traffic, can you repeat?
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I'm afraid has reached the end.
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1511 from 1712.
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Go ahead.
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Yeah, can we send traffic down to Fulton Street from Sunset?
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We've got a lot of people in the road.
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Can we send traffic down your way?
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The end of the parade's up here yet.
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All right, if you send anybody down, tell them to go slow if they're coming this way because the road's full of people.
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Traffic 15 from Power Playtops.
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Go ahead.
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So is the parade off of Fulton Street?
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Correct, I had mentioned a while back here on stage.
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Yeah, now my mic is acting up. I wanted to correct myself.
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Is the parade off of State Tree?
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We are at State.
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Sorry,
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repeat, one more time.
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We are still in the street.
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Okay, and how far do you typically get down through State?
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1715 from far police hops 1715 So you guys can open up sunset,
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all traffic needs to go north, okay, all traffic will be going north.
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Nothing down behind the parade.
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10-4[1], yeah, we got a lot of pedestrian on, so we'll proceed that way. Thank you.
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Location mentioned:
S State St & W Sunset Ave, Ephrata, PA 17522
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