Transformer failure cuts power near Berkshire Ave, Springfield MA

Fire & Arson

Reported: 11/9/2025 09:20 AM

Near Berkshire Ave, Springfield, MA 01109

Fire crews responded to a transformer failure near Berkshire Avenue in Springfield. A bird on the power line caused the failure. No active fire was found, but some nearby apartments lost power.

Audio|Source: Springfield Fire

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Transcript:

00:00

Command 2. Engine 6.

00:03

Respond to near Berkshire Avenue, transformer fire.

00:12

Fireline to Engine 6.

00:17

Okay.

00:19

Near Berkshire Avenue, Spanish speaker believes a transformer failed outside her house.

00:24

She has power.

00:26

She has power.

00:31

About...

00:35

...six the fire line.

00:37

Next.

00:42

We've got nothing shown.

00:44

We'll be investigating and update the following.

00:47

Okay, six they're off.

00:48

Berkshire. I have caller is from near Berkshire.

00:51

You're investigating nothing and follow this time.

00:57

The 6th and 5-1.

01:00

And 6.

01:02

Can we get episodes to respond to this location? It looks like a transformer let go.

01:06

You got no smoke or fire.

01:08

The residents have just lost power.

01:15

Okay, I received that.

01:16

You got a pole number for me?

01:23

It's going to be Eversource pole number seven.

01:27

Pole seven. Let me get Eversource starter.

01:28

Bear with me.

01:29

Fireline, Engine 6.

01:31

Eversource has been called in the ETA for right now.

01:35

Agent 6 received.

01:37

Agent 6 and Fireline, you can put engine 6 back in service.

01:40

That's going to be a bird on the line.

01:42

All right. No power.

01:48

Transformer let go.

01:51

That's a negative.

01:52

The transformer did let go.

01:55

Okay,

01:56

do you know if there's any just more power out or just near 406?

02:00

They asked about that.

02:01

If it's the neighborhood out or just near 406?

02:06

Near 406 is a small, one-story apartment complex, so we got the units on the left side of this complex that's out with power.

02:16

Okay, Engine 6 back in service.

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