Pine Mountain Georgia Fire Department News

May 18, 2010
Downed Tree Blocks Road Over an Hour

About 1630 hours, Tuesday, May 18, a windstorm blew through Pine Mountain.

Moments after the storm passed, the Pine Mountain Fire Department was dispatched to a downed tree blocking Ga. Hwy. 18 on the north end of town.

Firefighters arrived on the scene to find the large pecan tree was not actually on the roadway. With the tree trunk broken slightly above the ground, the remainder of the trunk and large limbs had fallen onto a power line and telephone trunk line, and was suspected about eight feet above the road.

Presuming the power line was still “hot” and the tree limbs too low for traffic to pass under, the road was blocked. Fire trucks were staged north and south of the obstruction with a Harris County Deputy Sheriff on the north end and a Pine Mountain Police Officer on the south end.

A call was placed to Georgia Power Company for a lineman to turn off the power before the tree limbs could be cut and the roadway cleared.

With the windstorm apparently having caused damage in other areas, it was over an hour before a Georgia Power lineman arrived on the scene. A line fuse was pulled and the power line dropped on the ground.

Firefighters quickly cut the tree trunk and limbs into manageable lengths. As the road was being cleared, one of the city’s employees brought a frontend loader to the scene which resulted in the roadway being cleared much quicker.

By 1800 hours the roadway was cleared and traffic was flowing.

There were no injuries in connection with incident.

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