Highway eastbound closed near Vine Street after truck blockage, Williamstown PA
Road ClosureThe eastbound highway near Vine Street is closed due to a blockage caused by a tractor-trailer. Fire and police units are managing traffic and directing vehicles to use detours. The closure is expected to last for some time, with efforts underway to clear the backlog of vehicles.
Audio|Source: Dauphin County Public Safety
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Transcript:
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Part,
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please.
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Partly's 54, Utility 54,
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and be shunned down,
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east down,
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283 at Vine Street.
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Once that's handled, if you're able to try to get traffic that's back longed.
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If you go off the wrong way, then get them out of there as well.
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283 eastbound could be shut down for a while.
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Control to Alpha 14 or Alpha 4.
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Control to Alpha 14 or Alpha 4.
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County Fire, Police, 59, responding.
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Hey, Fire, please say, no.
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Hey, fire, please, say, no.
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Al 14, go ahead.
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County Fire pollution before responding.
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Okay.
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Okay.
01:07
Do you have an appointment at 10 o'clock for near Revere Street? I have a gentleman on the phone.
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City had an inspection at 10.
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Near Revere? I don't believe so.
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FP 54-2, the FP 54-1.
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Should I just give him your guys' numbers and have him leave you a message?
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5401 here, go ahead, Bob.
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Was this for me or Mick, because it looks like it's solar?
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You take the on-ramp Vine Street utility's going to go back up to there and close off 283.
01:53
Okay, hold on a second.
01:55
I'm not sure he just said an inspection.
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I didn't check permit.
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My apologies.
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I'll reach out to Mick.
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Yeah, because I'm going to go down and start to turn around.
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Go down and turn around and start moving back along traffic.
02:09
All right, sounds good.
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Yeah, because I'm looking at permits that looks like there's installation of roof-mounted solar panels, so it probably is going to be Mac.
02:18
Thank you.
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Yeah, Bob, all I have is ramp in Vine Street, which direction so I know which ramp.
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You're shutting down eastbound.
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Copy that, shut down the eastbound ramp on the 283.
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That's affirmative.
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I'm going to head up to the turnaround eastbound and start moving the backlog traffic aisle.
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Copy that.
02:45
He's only 54.
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Yeah, 854-1.
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I'm going down to Vine Street and shut 283 down and run everybody off the Vine Street exit on the eastbound side.
03:01
Sounds like we're headed both in the same direction, that's where I was headed.
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Yeah, well you're not going to be able to shut that down by yourself because it's going to take more than one.
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Copy that.
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54-34, I'm coming in for the busbound sign on 283.
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One-four is clear.
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Okay, one-four. Okay, one-four.
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You see you.
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Okay.
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Street.
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Hey Dean, if you have anybody that can take over Vine Street, I've got a backlog halfway to the Turnpike Bridge.
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Okay, coming up on Vine Street now.
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Nine and twenty-two.
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Dean, you're going to get both the entrance ramps?
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I don't think she made it back here yet.
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Okay.
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Coming out, Appledee, or the West Trail?
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You're talking, and hey, Don.
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I'm talking to car.
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I couldn't see coming out.
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Right behind you.
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F.B2 to F.T31.
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Utility 54 from Fireplace 594.
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FP2 to FP31.
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Call me, sucker.
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Yeah.
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And, what's your actual location?
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I'm just coming up on Blind Street right now.
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204, Fireplace from 59 is calling you on Fireplace 1.
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Have you passed? Okay, so you're between Toll House and Vine Street.
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If you're not past the emergency turnaround, hold there.
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Copy, I believe them, passed the emergency turn around already.
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Copy that.
05:34
I want you to get, um,
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and come up eastbound down on the shoulder, up to the emergency turnarounds to be helping direct move these cars that are in the backlog.
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So I'm coming to line through to the eastbound ramp, to the eastbound shoulder to help move cars.
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Stylity 54 to FP 59 on Fire Police 1.
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Box 1-19, South 4th Street, Apartment 1009, Cross Street of Black Bear and Chestnut, Ordominal Paying Class 3, Company 1-1118.
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Hey, I am POV, so I am going to be at 283 in Union Street.
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I'm going to take this light and continue to flow traffic off the highway.
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I'm gonna go up to north east again and come back.
06:21
It's gonna be easier than it's gonna go offline streets.
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One more.
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Okay, one one.
06:28
All right, I got a lot of prompts because I have oversized boats sitting down here in the middle of the road that they can't take.
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I don't know if they can take Vine Street to 230.
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I don't know if their permits will allow them.
06:45
Let me find out what's cooking here because they got traffic all back up.
06:49
If you're doing this here in front of me, I'll move them cans.
06:52
Yep, I see that.
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I've got to block the on-ramp at Union right now, and then I'll take the traffic.
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I can't really see it crazy, but probably.
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54-1 here,
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all on-ramps are closed for Eastbound at Vine Street.
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Mike, just parking on Bell,
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down there at the bottom.
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R.C. 47's clue to E.R.
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47, you're on this one.
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Just a piece of information, the highway is fully blocked by a John Meptruck a trailer truck when I came down.
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We're going to be here a while.
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Copy that. Thanks for the update.
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Vine St, Williamstown, PA 17098
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