HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 2016-08-24, Page 15Some in Seaforth and Dublin
left without power, phone,
Internet or cable after train
knocks over hydro pole
Galen Simmons
Postmedia Network
Residents were left without
power and Quadro Communi-
cations customers in the sur-
rounding coverage area were left
without phone, internet and
cable after a train knocked over
a hydro pole at the Dublin rail-
road crossing at around 10:30
a.m. Aug. 17.
According to witnesses, a
train travelling through the Dub-
lin railroad crossing became
tangled in the overhead main
communications cable, pulling
the hydro pole southwest of the
tracks out of ground and sever-
ing said cable.
"I was walking with the two
kids I was babysitting today and
I said here comes the train, so
we stopped and watched it and
all of the sudden crash, bang,
lines were flying everywhere
and a tree came down near the
one house," Dublin resident
Louise Leslie recalled. "It was
close, like I was afraid (the lines)
were going to come back across
the road - I had to backup a bit
with the kids.
"The train was carrying some
kind of big apparatus, it was at
about the middle of the train,
and it just caught and the wires
just took it and everything went
down."
At about the same time as the
train got caught up in the over-
head wires, Jim and Greg Par-
atcheck, who live directly north-
west of the crossing, were
getting ready to jump in their
van and head to work when the
cable came down, almost on top
of them.
"All of the sudden we heard
the noise and Greg looks up -
and I've got a stiff neck so I
couldn't - and he says, 'Get the F
back,"' Jim explained.
"We were just getting into the
van before going to work and
the hydro lines landed on the
ladder (on top of the van) and
we were just at the passenger
door. We could hear the crack-
ling, we could hear the electric-
ity. It sounded like when I was a
kid whipping rocks at the train,"
Greg said.
Without knowing exactly what
was going on, both men got
themselves out of danger, but
before they could warn her, Jim's
wife Donna drove into the fami-
ly's driveway, over top of the live
wires.
"I just pulled in and they told
me to stay in the car," Donna
related. "The train was going by
and I just pulled in (to the
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driveway) and the wire was
already down, so I couldn't get
out of my car. I was stuck for
about half an hour."
According to witnesses, the
first authorities that arrived
on scene were from the
Municipality of West Perth,
followed by a crew from Erie
Thames Powerlines, and then
within 45 minutes, the Perth
County Ontario Provincial
Police (OPP). While the West
Perth employee worked to
keep vehicles and foot traffic
away from the live wires, the
Erie Thames crew began to
assess the damage and clean
up the debris.
"We were thinking it might be
4 p.m. when the power is fixed
(for Dublin residents), but it
might be closer to 6 p.m.," com-
mented Erie Thames Powerliges
sub foreman Bill Van Wyk at the
scene of the accident.
No one was injured during the
accident.
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