Tree branch on power lines near middle school field
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Schuylkill County Fire
02:54
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K 07:12 , we had a power source here a short time ago.
00:03
The caller's going to meet you in front of the D.H.H. Lengel Middle School.
00:07
He's saying next to the track field that he saw a tree on wires and it was it arced.
00:13
And now it has since stopped.
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Again, he'll be waiting in front of the school to point it out to you.
00:18
Said it's on the side of the field where the pizza place used to be.
00:26
Okay, you think I know what he's talking about.
00:30
Okay.
00:36
688 County.
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Chief 688.
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You
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say you're on scene.
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688 County.
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Chief 688.
00:57
I'm going to give you a phone number.
01:01
Okay.
01:06
You ready? We have (number withheld) over Sierra 4955.
01:16
Four.
01:21
Okay, and the problem's going to be pretty apparent.
01:23
Are they going to be able to see it or you want me to put a further description in where it's at exactly?
01:31
It's not going to be readily apparent.
01:36
It's
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right next to the practice football field, coming down towards the alumni field, the soccer field.
01:53
Okay, it's just a tree branch hanging on a wire.
01:58
Probably more than that.
02:00
2685 hit it up at the Jefferson Howard Avenue.
02:07
And it's probably your parents that from his description that there was a problem here.
02:17
Unknown if there's any power outages anywhere, so everything seems.
02:21
Still running.
02:24
But it was arcing at one point.
02:26
It's not arcing presently, correct?
02:30
Correct.
02:33
Okay, we'll put a ticket in.
02:34
Yeah, like I said, we got a power search down here a short time ago.
02:38
And there's no power outages shown on the PPL outage map.
02:44
Yeah, there's a tree branch that is visibly hanging over the top of the wires, and that's probably the cause.
02:53
Okay.
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