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An electrical pole leans in the Hollywood Markets parking lot off North Main Street in Royal Oak during the afternoon Oct. 3 after a truck backed into it and knocked out its base.
ROYAL OAK — Members of the Royal Oak Fire Department were called to a grocery store Oct. 3 after a truck backed into an electrical pole.
Firefighters were called to Hollywood Markets at 714 N. Main St. at 1:41 p.m. after the truck hit the electrical pole in the store’s parking lot, knocking the pole loose from the ground.
(A truck) backed into an electrical pole and cracked it,” Sgt. Ian Loch, of the Royal Oak Fire Department, said. “We got there, we called DTE (Energy) and just taped off a very large scene, and while we’re there, the cracked pole came off. It was still held up by the wires, but the pole itself completely failed.”
Loch stated that the Fire Department was able to leave the incident after DTE had secured the scene, and that DTE was still working on the pole Monday afternoon.
Loch said that the initial knockdown of the pole did not cause a power outage in the area.
“(The pole) cracked near the base,” he said. “Like 4 feet up, and then the pole completely broke away. And then that section that was still attached to wires fell to the ground. So it's kind of like the bottom was kicked out and then the top half … it came to the ground and then leaned, like a 45-degree lean, and the wires were basically keeping it up.”
