BOSTON (WHDH) - A downed powerline in Roxbury has created a major hazard, according to the Boston Fire Department.
Drivers and pedestrians were urged to avoid Kemble Street around 5 p.m. after a high-voltage transformer fell, electrifying a car and street signs.
The transformer is also leaking electrified minerals onto the ground.
“Nothing hit it but it was live and the transformer hitting the ground, released the mineral oils that are nontoxic but the powerlines were running through it so it was powered. So we had to wait for Eversource and Clean Harbor to clean it up because some of it did go down the drain,” firefighter Sharon Galloway said.
No one was hurt. Power has been shut off to a small area as cleanup crews work to suck that oil out of the drain.
@BostonFire companies & @bostonpolice at Gerard & Kemble St in Roxbury for a high voltage transformer pole down that has electrified a car an street signs. From impact with ground, the transformer has leaked now electrified mineral oils on ground. @CleanHarbors is in route. pic.twitter.com/nWO2B5kiw8
— Boston Fire Dept. (@BostonFire) June 25, 2020
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