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  • that is 12million kilo volts flowing down that line the medics are doing their best not to touch it because NPL has not arrived yet. first rule of thumb is never touch a downed line until the power company kills the power.

  • As scary as this was under the powerlines, think of the medics in the military that have to do this while being shot at...

  • 20kV is very, very bad to touch. Usually instant death. They were lucky..

  • OK for the record, "electrocuted" means you DIE from electricity.

    -an electrician

  • so what happened to the other person in the truck? and maybe this is a really stupid question, but i honestlt dont know...why can birds land on the live wires and not be electrocuted?

  • @Goodie8486 - It's because they're not making a circuit with the ground. Electricity always looks for a path to ground all the time. The insulators on powerlines stop it from going down the poles

    If a human was to hang from one powerline he would be fine, but if he touched the pole with his leg then he would be shocked. Some powerlines are insulated to avoid a huge shock if that were to happen

  • @132000Volts thx for the reply but i have seen videos where parachuters out of control make contact with powerlines while in the air and they got shocked...

  • @Goodie8486 No problem, in that case if the parachuters parachute is touching another line then it will make a circuit with that line too, that's why they get a shock as well!

    I do have a video on my list of that happening too, he was very unlucky lol

  • @132000Volts Don't most powerlines have some kind of circuit breaker that cuts the power when something gets shocked on the power lines (which is why the power goes out when squirrels and other critters get shocked)?

  • @Goodie8486 that was actually a great question i honestly never thought about that before

  • is it me or do the dispatchers see really bitchy?

  • ouch.

  • 3 feet jump from the wire?  Geeze...that's crazy.

  • Why did they not turn off the power lines as requested? Does that take a lot to get through?

  • @lakelandchief Wasn't there a 3rd person what happened to them?

  • @lakelandchief I think they did turn the lines off but they were still hot, and filled with electricity, not as high as it was, but even turned off the lines wered still hot and dangerous.

  • @artpeacemaster

    that's right.

    Such a line is only dead if DEAD AND GROUNDED

  • those downed wires have some sieriouse AMPRIDGE

  • Is it just me, or does that guy at the very end with the head wrap look and sound like Dangle from Reno 911???? Ha!

  • intense

  • do u have aby mour tapes of resce 011

  • Could that head wrap he's wearing be construed as racist?

  • Human bug zapper! ZZZZZZZZ!!!!

  • not funny at all.

  • Sure it is! :)

  • david rocks

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