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US 68 Closed today in Greensburg, Green County, KY

US 68 is Main Street, Greensburg, KY & Concurrencies KY 61/KY 70
Click on headline for story with photo(s) by Larry Smith, 92.7 FM the WAVE and 99.9 FM, the Big Dawg.

By Chris Jessie, Public Information Officer
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, District 4, Elizabethtown, KY

A Sunday, August 24, 2014, incident involving a fire truck will require closure of US 68 in Greensburg today, Monday, August 25, 2014. The fire truck was parked at the car lot on the corner of Legion Park Road and US 68 when it broke through into an existing building's basement. Cranes are scheduled to remove the truck and will block US 68 from 8am until the truck is removed expected by afternoon sometime.



Passenger vehicles can take the alley behind the downtown funeral home, (Cowherd & Parrott Funeral Home, 206 S Main, Greensburg, KY - CM), according to Greensburg's Mayor (Lisle Cheatham - CM). Commercial traffic will need to detour using the following routes: US 68 to KY 218, KY 218 to KY 1464, KY 1464 to KY 88 then KY 61 back to Greensburg.


This story was posted on 2014-08-25 06:57:03
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Summersville Fire Truck half swallowed by basement collapse



2014-08-24 - Corner of Main and E Columbia Avenue, Greensburg, K - Photo by Larry Smith, The Big Dawg, 99.9 FM radio. Officer H.W. Nunn of the Greensburg Police Department is investigating the collapse of pavement which left this loaded Summersville Fire Department truck half submerged in a basement garage under the parking lot at Rogers Auto Sales, located on the corner of S Main Street and E Columbia Avenue, just north of the Cowherd & Parrott Funeral home, in Greensburg, KY. The fire t.ruck was loaded with water. The photo was taken a little after 2pmCT, Sunday afternoon, August 24, 2014. A large crowd had gathered to watch as this photo was taken. - LARRY SMITH, Operations Manager, Shoreline Communications, (FM 92.7 the WAVE and FM 99.9 the BIG DAWG). Paired photo, see also - Retaining wall, portion of parking lot, Greensburg Post Office, falls
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