Highway closed for damaged live power line

Heard on: Alcoa TN Utilities

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This transcript is auto-generated from live dispatch audio and may be incomplete or inaccurate. It is not an official report and may change.

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You need me to come on out the highway or just go in there and get some stuff together?

00:05

(name withheld), they got the highway shut down.

00:07

I say just go there and get stuff gathered up.

00:10

It's right across from Old McGinnely's there.

00:13

And that VPA's coming across the road and picks up the hill.

00:18

Somebody run through it.

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But I went ahead and told (name withheld), just go ahead and start getting some people gathered up at that line.

00:27

It's just floating right now, but it's still hot.

00:29

But it blew into side type pieces going up the hill.

00:34

All right, that's one where the phone company wasn't going to show up and had to shut down.

00:41

Same pole.

00:44

(name withheld), I don't remember which one that was, but if you're right there, right past McKinley, if you're going towards Fleet Market,

00:52

the next pole just right past them there, coming across.

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All right, it's a straight line pole with side taps.

2026-10-22 05:58 UTC

Road Closure

Airport Hwy, Louisville, TN 37777

Not official report. AI-generated from public dispatch audio. Always verify with official sources.

As discussed during the dispatch call, radio traffic describes a highway shutdown near a business and a market due to a damaged power line or pole that is still energized. The line appears to be floating and broken into pieces up the hill, possibly after a vehicle ran through it, and crews are gathering near the line.