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WSB-TV Truck Hits Power Lines; No Injuries

Truck hits wires

Posted: 3:06 pm EST November 18, 2009Updated: 3:57 pm EST November 18, 2009

ATLANTA -- Two WSB-TV Channel 2 employees escaped serious injury Wednesday when their news truck exploded after touching power lines.

Channel 2 Action News reporter Tom Jones had just finished a live report with photographer Leonard Raglin at the Fulton County jail. They were driving from the jail when the mast, the telescoping pole that carries a microwave dish used to send video to the station, hit the power lines. The mast is supposed to be lowered if the truck is in motion.

The resulting explosion left the truck heavily damaged and blew apart the road under the truck. The top part of the mast and the microwave dish toppled to the ground.

Fire singed the front of the truck and the explosion left the side-view mirrors dangling off the vehicle.

Jones and Raglin were taken to Grady Memorial Hospital to be checked.

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