Tanker fire sparks shutdown on I-470 in Topeka, Topeka KS
Fire & ArsonA fuel tanker caught fire on westbound I-470 near milepost 3 in Topeka, prompting a full shutdown of traffic to ensure safety.
Audio|Source: Topeka Police Dispatch - East and West
02:42
Transcript:
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Needs your route to 470, milepost 3.
00:05
Milepost 3, just east,
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westbound 470.
00:13
There's a tanker truck on fire and it does have full fuel.
00:22
444 and fault 5 can you also ban around for traffic control fires in now? It looks like K-HP might have it as well.
00:32
45 and 246.
00:39
Just thinking ahead, we're going to need to shut down both directions.
00:48
You're probably thinking better than I am right now.
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If you want to start that way as well, I can put you on it so we can.
00:53
Looks like KHP might have it as well though.
00:56
Okay, and I'm pulling up.
00:58
Looks like he's probably going to be shut down both ways.
01:04
Ten, four, all lanes of traffic or just the inside?
01:08
Same by.
01:13
One foot in the area, but shut off the horn ramp, pherolans of 70.
01:22
104. So it's the eastbound.
01:27
I said we push all the traffic off to the gauge and keep, we can keep eastbound open for now at least.
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36, 1023 DOC, ending 39-172.
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10-4[1], pushing all westbound traffic off on page.
01:45
We're correct, I'll get there to...
01:49
Yeah, you're shut down to Weston.
01:52
10-11. 10-11.
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426, so where is everybody you pushed out to do?
02:05
They would go further east than gauge and push him off on two gauge.
02:10
Do you have anybody watching the on-ramp from Paralymp?
02:14
They were saying we could probably keep the eastbound traffic going, so we'll leave that alone for now.
02:23
I can't tell what size the tanker is.
02:26
The traffic's still pretty close to it.
02:32
The tanker itself's on the shoulder on westbound.
02:38
It's on the far north side.
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Ten four.
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I-470, Topeka, KS
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