Theree's going to be a lot of transformer fires this summer. With all the wires coming down this winter and shorting out it caused a lot of hidden damage.
Transformer fires are extremely rare, shorts cause cutouts to blow and sometimes reclosers to lock out, transformer fires happen due to overload, and even then, over load mostly results in blown cutouts and reclosers
*Here in Centerville we like to wait four hours before extinguishing an electrical fire that would have been extinguished in 15 minutes where I live in Ontario* . Not joking. From the time someone noticed the fire and phoned it in, crews would be on site in 5 minutes, a call would go in to the local hydro company to cut the power at that exact location. Power would be cut off from the station within minutes. Firefighters would then extinguish the fire. The entire thing would be over in 15 minutes total. That's how it's done.
HEY STUPID did you ever consider the reason water wasn't used is because the damn equipment that was burning is still LIVE???? oops sorry after rereading your remark,,, i realized you are a liberal democrat and for YOU common sense is an unused talent
+Benjamin Esposti - Or ratio transformers, which interface an upgraded distribution system with more outlying areas that the power company doesn't want to update just yet. Such as going from 7600/13200V 3 phase Wye to 4800V delta.
This is a rare sight as a lineman for a power company. The best thing is the FD kept everyone away. Next the power company is called to isolate the line by the next upstream device & spray dry chemical (shown) on the fire. The line needs to be de-energized because dry chemical is conductive & will generate a dangerous arc flash. We aren’t allowed to fight transformer fires like this because if the transformer contains pcb’s? Pcb’s when burning emit dioxin. Dioxin is poisonous to humans. We are told to let these burn themselves out. Then clear the affected pots & rebuild the top of the pole & install new pots.
The fun is they dial police, fire dept, but no one really knows the electric company or how to report the emergency. Found the address with google , the company is in a skyscraper located in a very distant big city with a bored clerk responding the sheriff from a remote small county. the clerk will phone his boss since only the boss can alert the “ emergency department” of company, located in another building of another city, in turn the department will contact an outsource company hired for these eventualities but actually engaged in another work well far from the accident. A man from outsource small company reaches in a pick up from home that county & will contact his boss “ yes a pole trafo is burning” another half hour of talking between the same people in reverse order just to decide that is better shut off the line at the substation where a bored technician will answer “ yes I noticed some unusual absorption from time, but so far no one had reported anything, so just expected your directions“ this could happen in working day and time, just imagine Sunday or night time
It doesn't cool them enough though. Basically, they are too small for the amount of load on the output. The greedy power company should've used bigger ones but won't.
Simon Tay , they seem to wait until the transformer catches fire like this one, or even worse, when it blows up. I've seen one blow up. Quite a spectacular sight, indeed.
@@simontay4851 It's nothing to do with greedy power companies. Sometimes these thing happen. Contaminated oil, low oil level or badly unbalanced phases are culprits.
More like : We don't have CO2 fire extinguishers. Don't write that they aren't professionals just because they don't have the equipment they need, but the keyboard firefighter knows better.
Electrical fires on the level the power company owns are not something they are trained to do. Their job is to cordon off the area & make it safe (keep the public away). Call the power company to respond.
Usually we use the fire dept dry chemical. The ones we keep on our truck are only 2 pounder's. The preferred method is to let it self extinguish because unless we know what is on fire? We may need a scba? Most lineman I know are not even fit tested to have one. Some of the older transformers contain pcb oil. If that burns? That turns into dioxin which is poisonous to humans.
I just watched a video where they took a transformer, hooked it up to a forklift and then dropped it on a car. No damage to the transformer...lots of damage to the car.
Bushings usually don't blow off!! Maybe a gray load on transformer slowly raised oil temps to the point of boiling. THen expansion. THen blowing out the bushings!
They don't realize but that Transformer model in fact has mineral oil that has pcbs in it which are very toxic especially when burning they should have had that fire out instead avoiding like that who knows how many toxic fumes have been released in that smoke
@@skuula Yes indeed... definitely not water. I wonder what it is; it looks like some kind of vaporous material, and the surplus just floated right up into the air along with the heat from the fire. It sure is effective, no doubt. Kudos to the manufacturers.
Scary. It took an awful long time for the utility to send a troubleshooter and ground the wires. There's not much the fire department can safely do before then - other than clear the area and hope nothing energized falls.
This will happen often once to many ppl use electric cars we do electrical for a living and this is gonna be a very normal thing with to many cars hooked to the grid some ppl are to dumb to see it lol
Powerline fires are low-risk, most departments have protocols to let it burn until power is shut off by power companies. More important yo keep the area cleared. Putting water on an oil-fire will cause a fireball as the water causes the flaming oil to spray everywhere.
4:50 *Reminds me of those birthday candles that keep reigniting no matter how many times you attempt to blow them out*
The whole transformer is filled with oil, and is very hot because the fire, which auto-ignites it when there is new oxygen near the oil
@@FerrybigGamingthis is why it's a CO extinguisher right?
In one side, electricity is flowing flame. On the other side, transformer oil is very flammable.
The irony is that the oil is suppose to keep the transformer from overheating.
Theree's going to be a lot of transformer fires this summer. With all the wires coming down this winter and shorting out it caused a lot of hidden damage.
Transformer fires are extremely rare, shorts cause cutouts to blow and sometimes reclosers to lock out, transformer fires happen due to overload, and even then, over load mostly results in blown cutouts and reclosers
They're waiting for Hydro Québec to handle this. They should be there in a few weeks.
When an electric fire becomes an oil fire.
which does it run on??? oil or electric??? 😂🤣🤣
@@HighAway The transformers are filled with oil.
Chol d bola parabéns equipe 🙏🙏
*Here in Centerville we like to wait four hours before extinguishing an electrical fire that would have been extinguished in 15 minutes where I live in Ontario* . Not joking. From the time someone noticed the fire and phoned it in, crews would be on site in 5 minutes, a call would go in to the local hydro company to cut the power at that exact location. Power would be cut off from the station within minutes. Firefighters would then extinguish the fire. The entire thing would be over in 15 minutes total. That's how it's done.
HEY STUPID did you ever consider the reason water wasn't used is because
the damn equipment that was burning is still LIVE????
oops sorry after rereading your remark,,, i realized you are a liberal democrat
and for YOU common sense is an unused talent
Well now that's now how we do it in the states we like to stand around and watch whilst waiting on the electric company bc it takes them days
Those circuits were dead before the filming started. Powder is used because water will exacerbate an oil fire.
Looks like an intermediate step-down bank of 167kVA transformers. Probably 34.5kV input?
+Benjamin Esposti - Or ratio transformers, which interface an upgraded distribution system with more outlying areas that the power company doesn't want to update just yet. Such as going from 7600/13200V 3 phase Wye to 4800V delta.
@@Inflec Nowhere near 167kva, 1/10 of that is more likely. American HV distribution is amazingly primitive
@@TheChipmunk2008 167KVA is right, as is Inflec. These power a rather large residential area.
This is a rare sight as a lineman for a power company. The best thing is the FD kept everyone away.
Next the power company is called to isolate the line by the next upstream device & spray dry chemical (shown) on the fire. The line needs to be de-energized because dry chemical is conductive & will generate a dangerous arc flash. We aren’t allowed to fight transformer fires like this because if the transformer contains pcb’s? Pcb’s when burning emit dioxin. Dioxin is poisonous to humans. We are told to let these burn themselves out. Then clear the affected pots & rebuild the top of the pole & install new pots.
Those poor american electric...............🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Very impressive 👍
Holy shit, I saw this in my suggested videos....my sister's house is literally on the next street over, Brezner Ln...
Dammit Bobby, that's not what I meant when I said light the Tiki torch... That boy ain't right.
The fun is they dial police, fire dept, but no one really knows the electric company or how to report the emergency. Found the address with google , the company is in a skyscraper located in a very distant big city with a bored clerk responding the sheriff from a remote small county.
the clerk will phone his boss since only the boss can alert the “ emergency department” of company, located in another building of another city, in turn the department will contact an outsource company hired for these eventualities but actually engaged in another work well far from the accident.
A man from outsource small company reaches in a pick up from home that county & will contact his boss “ yes a pole trafo is burning” another half hour of talking between the same people in reverse order just to decide that is better shut off the line at the substation where a bored technician will answer “ yes I noticed some unusual absorption from time, but so far no one had reported anything, so just expected your directions“
this could happen in working day and time, just imagine Sunday or night time
Government inefficiency
You have no idea what you are talking about!!
They fill the canisters with oil to keep the transformers cool but it caught the oil on fire.
It doesn't cool them enough though. Basically, they are too small for the amount of load on the output. The greedy power company should've used bigger ones but won't.
Simon Tay , they seem to wait until the transformer catches fire like this one, or even worse, when it blows up. I've seen one blow up. Quite a spectacular sight, indeed.
@@simontay4851 It's nothing to do with greedy power companies. Sometimes these thing happen. Contaminated oil, low oil level or badly unbalanced phases are culprits.
4:44 - FD we can't do this, we need a professional. Here you go.
4:50 *Reminds me of those birthday candles that keep reigniting no matter how many times you attempt to blow them out*
More like : We don't have CO2 fire extinguishers.
Don't write that they aren't professionals just because they don't have the equipment they need, but the keyboard firefighter knows better.
Electrical fires on the level the power company owns are not something they are trained to do. Their job is to cordon off the area & make it safe (keep the public away). Call the power company to respond.
took a day light to night time to extinguish it
I’d like to know what kind of a dry chemical fire extinguisher that power company worker was using, must have been at least a 20 pounder!!
Usually we use the fire dept dry chemical. The ones we keep on our truck are only 2 pounder's.
The preferred method is to let it self extinguish because unless we know what is on fire? We may need a scba? Most lineman I know are not even fit tested to have one. Some of the older transformers contain pcb oil. If that burns? That turns into dioxin which is poisonous to humans.
I just watched a video where they took a transformer, hooked it up to a forklift and then dropped it on a car. No damage to the transformer...lots of damage to the car.
Does anyone know what sparked this?
Bushings usually don't blow off!! Maybe a gray load on transformer slowly raised oil temps to the point of boiling. THen expansion. THen blowing out the bushings!
FIRE😮
Hayanniss...roff??
The man in the road watching needs to be closer.
O my God transformers is on fire
The firemen would have been more successful by throwing gasoline up there. What a couple of bozos!
Yup
They just stand around doing absolutely nothing. Pitiful.
They don't realize but that Transformer model in fact has mineral oil that has pcbs in it which are very toxic especially when burning they should have had that fire out instead avoiding like that who knows how many toxic fumes have been released in that smoke
they Can't until the power is cut bc then you would have 20 dead firemen
They can’t put it out with water and electricity
What going on in USA Today reports 😒
Is. 20017
What is. Going on. Huh
Hey Mr fireman - water on burning mineral oil?
the fire blozo is an eager beaver. he's gotta be a HEEEE_ROWWWW
That wasn't water
@@skuula Yes indeed... definitely not water. I wonder what it is; it looks like some kind of vaporous material, and the surplus just floated right up into the air along with the heat from the fire. It sure is effective, no doubt. Kudos to the manufacturers.
I see a power lineman in a bucket truck
Dam WEREs the power company 😮gonna need a new pole and cross arm also💩
2:56 PM on fire
that's quite a hot cook top.
This would never happen in the UK. These transformers are clearly too small for the amount of load on the output.
Yes I'm surprised too about the number of electrical accidents in the US, that we almost never see happen in w Europe.
And our transformers are not on wooden poles!
Wooden cross arms is a bad idea. Galvanised steel is used in the UK plus the transformers are also mounted on a steel frame also ..
Got hot dogs 🌭
Scary. It took an awful long time for the utility to send a troubleshooter and ground the wires.
There's not much the fire department can safely do before then - other than clear the area and hope nothing energized falls.
4:50 *Reminds me of those birthday candles that keep reigniting no matter how many times you attempt to blow them out*
This is what I'm talking about they always wait till the damage is irreversible before they even start putting it out there assholes like that
Just a rubbish bin fire on a pole.😂
👨🏻🚀👨🏻🚀👩🚀👨🏻🚀
Not Ideal location to place fireworks.
This will happen often once to many ppl use electric cars we do electrical for a living and this is gonna be a very normal thing with to many cars hooked to the grid some ppl are to dumb to see it lol
Don't just stand there! Throw some water on it!
Jason Baumgartner it’s an oil fire.
Jason Baumgartner even worse
Powerline fires are low-risk, most departments have protocols to let it burn until power is shut off by power companies. More important yo keep the area cleared. Putting water on an oil-fire will cause a fireball as the water causes the flaming oil to spray everywhere.
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Bumpmu down
Theree. Fires
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