Utility pole fire disables vehicles and blocks road, Luzerne County PA


A utility pole in Jenkins Township caught fire, causing active flames. Multiple vehicles are disabled nearby due to hazards on the road, leading to traffic disruptions and emergency response at the scene.
Audio|Source: Luzerne, Wyoming, and Lackawanna County Public Safety
05:19
Transcript:
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Moving for level 430.
00:04
...level 430. For the pole on fire, so...
00:20
For the pole on fire.
00:25
26th.
00:30
It's 13652-252 for one page.
00:38
It would be 171-699 on the main to protect by Q.
00:43
This would be 175 northbound.
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Jenkins, we're going to turn around and come back.
00:59
I think we have two separate crashes,
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174 south,
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and 175 north of Jenkins.
01:12
We're going to go to 175 in orders of the two.
01:23
So, four, six.
01:29
You want to six, six, or rescue?
01:34
State call back the one that you're going to be responding to is Northbound.
01:41
All right, we'll advise when we get there.
01:43
The 175,
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for correction, 174 south.
01:50
He was out of what's like minor damage.
01:56
I'll let the state.
02:03
Johnny, 148 engine.
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148 engine.
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Got.
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Johnny, we're going to be out at a 174.
02:17
There are multiple vehicles on the side of the road here. We're in the out of investigating what's going to?
02:25
So, for six, after that.
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148, 160.
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Got it, Chief.
02:41
You got about six more you're at. You got about six more vehicles going down the road. I don't know if something.
02:46
But there's vehicles everywhere.
02:50
Can I let it pass.
02:55
Back to arrive in GWV.
03:01
077.
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9166 rescue. We're arriving 1-7 -4-0.
03:14
104701.
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On 156.
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Kingston Borough for the 72-year-old male, short of breath.
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7.01.
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Johnny, 1540.
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In the area 702.
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I up here.
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Then.
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One-148 engine.
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Got it.
04:06
8 is over at that other vehicle accident northbound.
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State Police on the southbound 174.
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In vehicles with multiple flat tires,
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there was an object on this mile marker.
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Ted, for I advise them of the stuff going on on the set.
04:36
We'll have to know the update.
04:41
Keep working our way now.
04:47
7.04.
04:50
Is there a 166 brush on?
04:55
On the scene 704.
04:58
The poll number is going to be 49659 over 4173.
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49659 over 40873.
05:12
For the turn in Florida, but we go to the top line.
05:15
We do have an active fire.
05:18
Good for.
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