Explosion at telephone pole blocks roads near Main Street, Williamstown MA
Road ClosureAn explosion and electrical arcing occurred at a telephone pole near Main Street rotary. This caused power lines to fall and block Cold Spring Road and access through the rotary, resulting in road closures.
Audio|Source: North Adams Police / Fire, Adams, Williamstown and County Police
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Transcript:
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If you get any alarms from the lake school, we just have to call outage, don't be getting any flash alarm, there's any panic alarms.
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You can disregard those.
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Power just got turned back out.
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Talk to that.
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30K to Williamstown.
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30K.
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30K. Ma'am, I'm en route to the rotary from my detail. I could hear a loud explosion and what sounded like arcing from a telephone pole.
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Stand for,
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do you have an idea of location on that?
00:45
Yeah,
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it's going to be the top of that main street by the rotary.
00:54
30k, how about your way?
00:58
30K, I'm out your way.
01:03
32 Williamstown to be cold spring road at the rotary, power lines throughout the road, train the road.
01:12
Sand for us.
01:32
Just acquire if you were still at the porches, because we just got a trouble alarm coming in on the fire panel.
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Ryan, see now.
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Dispatch receipt.
01:54
Okay,
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I'm coming cold to bring them in and be able to get through.
01:58
Where would you like me?
02:00
Yeah,
02:03
you're going to be able to get up the rotary. You just can't get through the rotary. You got wired on both sides.
02:12
Do you want anything shut down at this point?
02:16
Okay.
02:18
Yeah, if you want to try to turn them around at the only bang, just don't let trucks over that way.
02:26
Copy that.
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3534.
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Go ahead.
02:44
Where are you going to be? I'll be at normally bank closing that down, just let me know what you need.
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