Tree hangs on power line near M‑203, threatens to block road, Houghton County MI
TrafficHaving been spotted hanging on a power line near M‑203 and Bear Lake Road, a tree threatens to fall and block the road with the next gust of wind.
Audio|Source: Houghton and Keweenaw Counties Police, Fire and EMS
06:21
Transcript:
00:00
It's a little more than a half a mile north on M203 past the rendezvous.
00:06
It is a power line.
00:07
It's a tree hanging on the power line.
00:10
No arcing and sparking break.
00:14
Is it across the roadway or anything?
00:19
It soon will be.
00:22
It's just hanging there.
00:24
There's about 10-foot clearance right now.
00:27
Cars have been going underneath it.
00:29
I don't know how long.
00:35
Okay, clincy one is clear.
00:37
You might as well keep truck four heading that way and assess the situation when they get there.
00:49
Copy that.
00:51
Truck for Quincy 28.
00:57
Quincy Trep4,
01:00
Quincy Twenty-eight.
01:06
Hey, Jim, you got a copy.
01:11
Go ahead.
01:13
Are I going up to hill with you, too, or in all?
01:19
If you want you can, you don't have to.
01:22
All right, well you're up looks way better at mine, so I'm going to get the mine right away.
01:29
All right, appreciate that.
01:36
All right,
01:37
get you a call, give you another hat.
01:46
How could you guess?
01:54
I was able to make it all the way down to the turnaround, but I'm completely buried down here.
02:00
It's like waist deep.
02:03
All righty.
02:04
I'll be on my way.
02:07
Thank you.
02:13
Station 80, Quincy 28.
02:17
Go ahead.
02:21
We have a tree hanging on an REA line and is soon to block M203.
02:29
Blake.
02:31
Permating 80 to confirm you so there's a tree down on a line and is blocking the road by correct.
02:39
Station 80, Quincy 28.
02:43
Ed.
02:45
The tree, uh, it's not on the road, it's not blocking the road as of yet.
02:50
Um, but it soon will be with, you know, another gust or two.
02:53
Break.
02:56
The REA poll number is (number withheld), and it's approximately one mile north of Bear Lake Road and M203 at the junction of Lakeshore Drive, Bear Lake Road, and M203.
03:13
Clear. I'll give RIA a call.
03:16
Copy that. Thank you, E.D.
03:23
80, 1969.
03:31
Station 80 from Allway Fire.
03:34
Go ahead.
03:37
Show us around.
03:44
There. ...front your own commissions, been notified about the tree's down.
03:52
Can you repeat, you got stepped on?
03:57
Just wondering if the Cuban Accountary Road Commission's been notified about the trees down.
04:07
And if not, I'll make so they get notified.
04:13
Thank you.
04:19
Quincy 2, Quincy 28.
04:26
Go ahead for Quincy 2 on Channel 2.
04:33
We have a location for Chuck 4, haven't heard from them.
04:40
They're headed your way.
04:42
We're trying to make phone contact with them right now.
04:46
I'll copy that too.
04:48
If they can, they're going to need to come down from the north on M203.
04:55
If they can't, that's okay.
04:57
We'll get around it.
05:10
Okay, there should be some contact phone numbers in Engine 1 and Engine 2, and there should be some phone numbers for REA.
05:19
Maybe you want to try to reach someone on one of them private lines.
05:27
Okay, message received.
05:29
Quincy 28, Quincy 2,
05:31
I believe they're on Channel 2 now for you.
05:37
I copy that, too.
05:41
Quincy, too, Quincy, 28.
05:46
Go ahead, 28.
05:48
I did contact 80 with the poll number for REA and location,
05:55
just an FYI.
06:00
Yeah, we're clear on that.
06:01
Could you repeat that poll number for us here one more time?
06:07
(number withheld),
06:08
I repeat,
06:10
(number withheld), R-EA, one mile north of Bear Lake, Lake Shore Drive on M203.
06:19
We're clear on that, thank you.
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Location mentioned:
M-203 & Bear Lake Rd, Hancock Township, MI 49913
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