Brush fire reported near highway with live wires down


A brush fire is reported near Highway 440, with live electrical wires down. Civilians are helping direct traffic while emergency responders manage the situation.
Audio|Source: Jersey City Police
04:44
Transcript:
514, you can clean me from yours. That's helpful. Thank you. Thank you. Receive. You can put me off on Suburbia Terrace, 440, that a brush fire. FD[3]A's off. You do have some live wires down. They're attending to the brush fire now. Receive. (name withheld) Matt Thirteen summertime. And Lieutenant, if you have any other units, they're going to need them. You've got civilians out here trying to help with traffic. The live wires are going to have to do something with that. I'm going to get a closer look and give you an update. Parking lot. 440 northbound is parking lot. Yeah, Lieutenant, you got a live wires and some sparks. Just let FD know, or the unit that's over by FD, let them know the wires down here sparking. By them that there's live wires down the block, sparking. Proceeding. And anyone that have cones, stop bringing them over this way, please, so we can shut down the exits from Country Village coming out to 440. Can you help out with us? Do you guys have any calls in your car? Lieutenant, from the FD, it's possible that this traffic light might be coming down. So, notified the CIC. We're going to be shutting down Route 4 from Béon going north. Units down there, no more traffic coming this way. If you've got some large trucks that can't go through Country Village, we'll try to get them through, but stop all traffic for now. So traffic starting at Country Village and Highway 440 is going to be halted completely? Here, Lieutenant, I just want to make sure I'm passing along the right message. Country Village Road and Highway 440 is main check down completely, correct? So 440 going north from the Bayonne back there. We're going to have to shut it down. We're going to shut all exits from Country Village coming on 440 down. Junice down there. Try to divert all the cars through Country Village. They can get out that way. The 18 wheelers will try to get through in the meantime. Received. So a priority right now, we're shutting down 440 back there by what Bayonne in Jersey City meet. Let's get that one done first. All right, do you want me to try to reach out to Bayonne, see if they can help us out with this? Yeah, see what they can do. I think it's going to be more on us. They're going to say it's on us that they don't have anyone, but reach out for the city captain, see if the traffic unit or something can maybe be pulled from the south. I know they're tight in detail, but this is going to be a mess down here until FP, PSNG is off by the way, until FP can get a handle of this. And 393 as a point, if you have a notified DOT[1], notified them, they're usually pretty good for helping us out with traffic. And from PSG[2], these are live wires. You want everyone to be their say back. So as right now, no other cars come through, not even the trucks. It's going to be had to stand still there. Try to put the small cars through Crunchy Village, but send them out that way.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
DOT: Department of Transportation
[2]
PSG: Public Service Gas & Electric (utility)
[3]
FD: Fire Department
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Location mentioned:
NJ-440 & Suburbia Terrace, Jersey City, NJ 07305
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