Crime & Safety
National Grid Truck Crashes, Causes Power Outage, Fire
A National Grid worker crashed into an electrical pole on Route 1 South this morning, downed a telephone pole and cut power to the area, igniting a fire at the Bradley School, according to officials.
No one was injured this morning when a National Grid worker crashed his company truck into an electrical pole on Route 1 South around 11:30 a.m., said State Police.
Jereme Lacolle, 33, of Coventry, blamed sun glare for causing him to veer off the road and into the pole near the government center exit. According to Lt. Ernest Quarry of the State Police, South Kingstown EMS responded, but Lacolle refused treatment.
Lacolle's truck severed the pole, cutting power to the Bradley School on Tower Hill Road and igniting several motors within the building, said John Blessing, administrator to the Union Fire District.
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Blessing said a number of UFD trucks were dispatched at 11:32 a.m. to extinguish the burnt-out motors and clear the school of smoke. The trucks cleared the scene by 12:15 a.m.
"We're back to normal now, it was more of a surge than anything," said an administrator with the Bradley School who declined to give her name at 12:35 p.m.
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