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Small electrical fire at power substation near Wharton grade schoolWharton WV

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Wharton, WV 25208

Multiple callers reported white smoke near Wharton Grade School. It was a small electrical fire at a nearby power substation that went out on its own.

Audio|Source: Boone County Public Safety
03:22
Transcript:
00:00
I take two calls now from the church there and bear.
00:04
Both of the eyes that there's white smoke coming from the Wharton grade school.
00:11
Beautiful.
00:16
6116 we're on our station.
00:20
Okay.
00:26
Control, clear for my head address.
00:31
Clare it in there.
00:36
Control C. Control Cigone.
00:38
You got it.
00:45
VAL 3.
00:49
Copy. 10.30.
00:56
764 patrol.
01:00
Go ahead. Yeah.
01:06
This is supposedly going to be down here well somewhere in the fire station.
01:14
Yeah, I took one call, it said the grade school, and I took one it said the substitution.
01:18
I'm not really sure.
01:24
We'll be in the route down here at Wales.
01:27
You might just stop your firehouse, told us that.
01:35
Newport 1039.
01:40
Controls the...
01:43
The call you took (name withheld), does they say what was that?
01:48
I just got off the Lincoln County, they did advise that the security guard who called in, provides that a power box was on fire.
01:57
I'm not really sure where I'm trying to get a call back into him.
02:03
Dean Four.
02:04
701, 601.
02:07
701,
02:12
600.
02:14
Go ahead for 6506.
02:16
You're going to go ahead and slow your response.
02:21
I'm going to see anything visible here.
02:22
Just yet,
02:24
I'll let you know a little bit more here in just a second.
02:29
Temple.
02:32
If you like to come up to the gate on the upper end where the rail crossing is, the code on that is 525-pound.
02:43
That's copy, sir, please.
02:50
7-0-1-600.
02:58
But it looks like it's going to be an Easter egg, so you can probably just go ahead and clear up there if you want.
03:06
It's been right here if you want.
03:09
What we want us to do 30 seconds out, we can clear.
03:14
It's been right here in this substation.
03:21
It's extinguished itself.

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Wharton, WV 25208

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