PLYMOUTH, Mass. —

A large wind turbine blade detached and fell into a cranberry bog in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on Friday afternoon.

Plymouth Fire Chief Neil Foley says they received a call from a concerned neighbor around 1:52 p.m. who noticed one of the three blades on the 300-foot-tall wind turbine was missing. Advertisement

Firefighters located the detached blade several hundred feet away from the base, resting in an open cranberry bog.

Sister station WCVB's Sky5 was over the scene of the broken blade, which is between 75 to 100 feet long. We did not see any additional detached blades in the area.

There were no injuries, and there is no threat to the public.

The maintenance company responsible for the wind turbine responded to the scene and said the turbine automatically entered

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