Photos Capture Emergency Services Crew Clearing Bridgewater Street

Bridgewater Crew Finishes Clearing Tree Blocking Peach Tree Road

Bridgewater Township wasn’t spared the damage caused by severe winds on Saturday afternoon.  These were gusting as high as 46 miles per hour, enough to uproot any of the township’s evergreen trees, some of which are shallowly rooted, and make a perfect target for angry winds.

Shortly after lunch on Saturday, one of those trees on Peach Tree Road in the Sunset Lake area of Bridgewater fell victim to those high winds and toppled straight across the street, blocking it completely.

Within minutes from the time that neighbors in the vicinity placed a call to Bridgewater Police, road crews showed up and immediately got to work cutting down the double-trunked tree and cleaning up the street.

The best way to describe how quickly and efficiently the cleanup was begun and completed, is to view the series of photos below, with which I captured this event. 

According to clock records on my digital images, the Bridgewater Department of Public Works did this job from start to finish in less than fifty minutes, before heading out to another job.  (Click on any image for an enhanced view.)

Bridgewater Emergency Management Services Crew Quickly Arrives on the Scene.

Work Crew Begins Clearing Peach Tree Road.

Township Employee Keeps Chain Saw Busy.

These Pine Trees are too Full of Sap and are not Good for Fireplace Fires.

Public Works Crew Continues Clearing Branches.

Sawdust Flies as Work Progresses.

As Cutting Continues, Team Workers Haul Away Branches and Logs.

Assessing Status and Making Progress.

By this Time, Most of the Road has been Cleared.

Work Detail Cuts Tree Back Far Enough from Side of the Road so as not to Create a Hazard.

The Last Cut.

All Done!  Cleaning up and Moving on to the Next Job.

All that Remains is a Pile of Logs and Branches.