Transformer on Fire!
Ordinarily, those words would send me into a frantic dash for the fire extinguisher nearest my TF cabinet. However, this time they only sent me home from work early. The electricity pole outside of our office blew up today and caught on fire. One of the transformers (not that kind of transformer) on it exploded and caused some serious power fluctuations in our building.
It was pretty exciting. There was a loud boom (like an M80 went off outside) and the lights started flickering. We shut down all the computers and turned out the lights, figuring that the power company would be out shortly to fix it (and turn off the power anyway). For the next half hour or so, everyone in the office was staring out the windows at the bright sparks from the fire on the pole.
The fire department showed up and tried to put out the fire with water from a firehose. The electricity was flaring white hot, and the flames were localized to the transformer, but very high. I didn’t think that water would work on an electrical fire, but it went out after three tries. Since there was nothing else interesting to see, we all went home early at around 2:30 PM.
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