advertisement
A freak accident on Monday afternoon took down a 282-foot tower and temporarily left WNBY voiceless. But it could have been much worse. According to Michigan State Police reports, a 55-year-old Chelsea man was turning around in the WNBY parking lot when his snowmobile trailer caught a guy wire stabilizing the large steel structure. “It got the tower rocking, and it collapsed on the radio station,” confirmed a spokesman for the post. WNBY General Manager Travis Freeman confirmed there were three employees inside the structure when the tower came down on the building. All escaped without injury. The occupants of the vehicle which upset the tower likewise escaped unscathed... Accident knocks down Newberry radio tower down (Soo Evening News, Wed 2/15)
