Retired firefighter Tom Neal spent 30 years rushing to scenes of potential death or injury. But he ranks what happened on December 11, 1998, as he was standing on a sidewalk in St. Cloud, Minnesota, at the top of his list of close calls. Along with three other firefighters, Neal […]
A construction worker was engulfed in flames after his jackhammer pierced a live high-voltage underground electricity cable in Ukraine. Ten of thousands of volts raced through the man’s body and even burnt his colleague who was standing next to him when the accident occurred. The men had been laying a […]
Buried electrical wires create hazards for construction workers, electricians, utility company employees, farmers, landscapers, equipment operators, trenchers, excavators, and property owners. On the morning of June 6, 2015 in Santa Maria, California, two local men were performing work on an underground water pump connected to a well. According to authorities, […]
A construction worker was critically injured after cutting through a power line and causing a small explosion Monday afternoon in Newport Beach. Police and firefighters were called to the 3 p.m. incident on Via Lido and Via Oporto when people heard the noise of the explosion, said Sgt. John Thulin […]
In late June, a freakish and powerful “derecho” storm in the Washington, D.C., area knocked out a bunch of power lines and left more than a million homes without electricity for several days (weeks, in some cases). Soon enough, local officials began calling on the local utility, Pepco, to bury […]
The cry goes up every time Tallahassee experiences a big storm, with trees falling on electric lines and knocking out the power for many residents: “Why doesn’t Tallahassee put its electric lines underground?” Sure enough, the cry went up after the June 30 windstorm. Hundreds of trees fell on power […]
A fiber-optic line cut during construction beneath West Broadway in south Dickinson affected hundreds of Consolidated customers Wednesday night and led to upward of $40,000 in damages for the telecommunications company. Two major fiber-optic conduits were cut near the intersection of Broadway and South Main Avenue, Consolidated Chief Operating Officer […]
S itting in his two-story Newport Beach home that he’s owned for 35 years, Jim Young can think of a few ways he could spend the money he saved in his younger years to help sustain him through his retirement. Shelling out tens of thousands of dollars to place the […]
Coral Gables has asked Florida Power and Light if it would consider charging its customers statewide for a portion of the cost of putting transmission lines that will run through the city underground. The Gables is one of several cities, including Miami, South Miami and Pinecrest, that joined together to […]
