Transformer fire spills oil, ignites road and driveway, Twin Lake MI
Fire & ArsonA transformer caught fire, spilling about 1,000 gallons of oil onto the road near W Lake Rd. The oil ignited the road and a nearby driveway. Emergency crews are at the scene and the area is closed until the cleanup is done. Power has been turned off for safety.
Audio|Source: Muskegon County Police, Fire, and EMS
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Transcript:
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Fire test only. Carfire. Do you copy?
00:03
Car-fire copies?
00:06
Do you copy?
00:10
Clear Lake, do you copy?
00:15
Lake plan on page.
00:18
Clear.
00:19
Luther, do you copy?
00:25
On standby here with one. Do you want more manpower? Do you want more manpower? Do you want me to hang back in cover calls?
00:35
Come in for 40.
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Is every sign to 1140?
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Don't get a heads up,
00:56
we had to de-energize this transformer,
00:59
so they're going to have a few customers off. We're not even able to energize until the start-corren gets this cleaned up. They got like about a thousand gallons of oil ran down the road, and the road is on fire and driveway, so we got to wait for them to be accessible for us.
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So it'll be a little bit.
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Location mentioned:
Near W Lake Rd, Twin Lake, MI 49457
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