Downed wires catch fire near North Temple Street, Lewiston ME
Fire & ArsonFire crews responded to downed electrical wires on fire near North Temple Street in Lewiston, Maine. The fire was mostly extinguished but some utility lines continued burning, requiring power company assistance to disconnect electricity. The incident occurred near a residence close to the fire station.
Audio|Source: Auburn and Lewiston Fire and EMS
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Transcript:
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That no other info.
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Code 3.
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Lewis and Engine 4.
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Near North Temple Street, off duty firefighter that was at the station.
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Neighbor near Temple City had some wires that were on fire that disconnected for the house and there's a small fire outside.
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Engine Ford is en route from Central.
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Look at an engine Ford, you're en route from Central and you're going to near North Temple for wires that are on fire.
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Called in by an off through the LFD, also I think the fire was out now and a little bit of fire on the ground.
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Right across the street from the station.
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It's four top news.
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Wires on fire across your car station.
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Larson Engine 7, Lewis and Engine 7 480, a motor vehicle accident at East and Webster.
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The single vehicle versus a motorcycle with an injury.
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Seven, you're on and responding to
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Lewis and Engine 7.
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You're going to East and West your west or east or westward's
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for a vehicle versus a motorcycle with injury.
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Louis and Engine 5.
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Louis and Engine 5.
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Fire alarm came in at Montello, 415 of 911.
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I was going to call you.
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Dave called in, said it was accidental for burning of food.
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I thought you might 101 truck response.
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Let me know if that changes.
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Okay, Cli is responding from Central LV416's decision.
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Call them from 415, I'm just one-trug to one-truck response to what we want to tell us.
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Thank you.
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Speak about work truck one truck one respond to Washburn School near Lake Harbor and a half Washment School like a half it's going to be a student that's bully fire alarm to go out of the 50-trial treaty.
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Tracy.
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I'm listening to 7303-0.
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Okay.
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Copy.
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That's a force on.
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Good voice.
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Coffee.
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That's on.
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Truck one, I'll show you on responding to near Lake Harbor for Washburn School.
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There you have a student who pulled the fire alarm.
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Go around as 852 Charlie 3J.
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What's the street command?
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Energy RAS, got ahead, it's going to be evaluated.
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You should also fire yards.
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No, is it clear, no, sir, command, termination.
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Copy clearance, service command, term, terminate.
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North Temple Command.
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Combs are from North Temple Command.
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North Temple Command, go ahead.
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Well,
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we got another utility company on the scene.
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It looks like a fiber optic company and they are running a line and a bucket line kind of tangled up into the power lines.
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And they've basically their lines are now hot and they're burning.
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And so we need CMP here to disconnect this power or this area or to this house at least.
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Copy as soon as I'm off 911.
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Thank you.
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Near N Temple St, Lewiston, ME 04240
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