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<< Previous   of   Next >> Kevin Nortz / The Herald  (click to enlarge) Verizon lineman Jason Pauley examines a delivery truck tangled in overhead wires in Mukilteo on Wednesday.   ADVERTISEMENT   CONTACT THE HERALD Robert Frank, City Editor frank@heraldnet.com   Published: Thursday, August 7, 2008 Local Briefly: Delivery truck hung up in utility wires MUKILTEO -- A cable line snagged a semi-truck's trailer, lifting it into the air and cutting power to a few homes Wednesday afternoon. No one was hurt, but the truck's driver waited in the cab until firefighters determined it was safe to get out, Snohomish County Fire District 1 spokeswoman Leslie Hynes said. The mishap occurred about 2:15 p.m. near the intersection of Pictorial and Maplewood avenues, she said. Crews had to wait for a tow truck to arrive to remove the truck from the wires. Monroe: Small plane lands in rural field A man landed a small plane in a rural Monroe field Wednesday morning during a test flight. He wasn't injured and no fuel was spilled in the bumpy landing. A fence was damaged. The man set the plane down about 10:30 a.m. in the 17500 block of 190th Street SE, Snohomish County sheriff's spokeswoman Rebecca Hover said. "He just decided the motor wasn't getting enough fuel so he put (the plane) down in a rural area," she said. From Herald staff reports

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