Electrical Fire

[22MrHacker33]

I guess you had to many christmas lights plugged in?

[Soniow]

FIREWORKS

[SittingMooseShaman]

...now THAT begs for a deluge of balloons filled w/salt water and vinegar...!!

BOOSH! BIZ-ZZ-ZZ-AA-AA-ZZ-ZZ-ZZ...PHI­SS-SS-SS-SS-ZZ-ZZ-II-TT! BOOM!!

[astrowanabe]

so, how does the power company know how much to charge you for that month? Do they just give you a break, since it was their equipment that almost burned down yoour building?

[kaskurgichan]

Same thing happened with our meter which you can view on my page. I don't have the video of it happening as I was pulling a bush away from by the meter so it wouldn't catch fire. Neighbor had an ABC fire extinguisher and we used a quick burst to put the fire out it worked. It popped a lot afterwards but there was no risk of a fire after that and even if it did catch on fire again I would have just did a quick burst again. We have a brick house too thankfully.

[jewkeslogan]

this is just like a small fire work

[seansy59]

Car wash is turning to "car ash"

[plateshutoverlock]

all of a sudden I am in the mood for popcorn

[jeabo0adhd]

I meant the breaker on the transformer. I think they have them. I may be wrong.

[tictac1919]

sounds like popcorn ;)

[jeabo0adhd]

Why won't the breaker pop?

[caveman175]

@jeabo0adhd The wire is fed through the meter before going to your service panel.

[TheSliderzone]

fire safety video!

[TheWaynelds]

man this is sooo scary. this can happen in our homes at any given time. I never leave lights on in a room that i'm not using incase something like this happens inside my walls.

[spenceray357]

I'm on the Fire Dept that responded to this call. I was on duty and at this call. The Fire Chief actually recorded this video.

[T3RRABYT3]

@spenceray357 it sounds like popcorn!

[hyperbaricchicken101]

Did you have to call the fire department?

[TheLithuaniaROCKS]

fireworks :D

[mastergx1]

Ive seen that sort of fault MANY MANY times....Some FUCKWIT replaced a blown fuse with a nail / screw / bolt / lump of metal instead of another fuse. This is what happens next time it faults. DON'T DO IT - NOT AT HOME, NOT AT WORK, NOWHERE - If someone was to touch that, there would be no fuse to protect them and they would be electrocuted

[kel1981]

@mastergx1 Fuses are there to protect equipment, not people.

[mastergx1]

@kel1981 Not true. Fuses are DESIGNED to protect equipment but to say they are not there to protect people is an incorrect statement. Fuses are designed to blow when OVERCURRENT flows through them. That includes short circuits, overloads, line to earth faults and protection from electric shock (which is basically a type of line to earth fault with the person acting as the bridge between the two. What you see in the video looks like a short circuit caused by water bridging two or three phases.

[clevous]

@mastergx1  Fuses are to protect conductors.

[TheMrBlinx]

Why did you cut it so short? There was at least five minutes worth of fireworks there.

[billeyjbob5000]

i fucking hate the smell of it

[johneastmond]

Car washes demand stuff to be real corrosive resistant! Car washes suck! All equipment must be class 8 corrosive resistant! Oooops!

[markotheterrorist69]

holy shit

[AroundSun]

yes, fire, yes

[zepperjokes]

@slikhedgehog iwas talking about a fire extinglesher that is desined to put out electrical fires sutch as a dry chemical fire extinglesher i know their are 3 class of fires trash, liquid,eletrical im not stupid!!!

[quantumbits]

@zepperjokes So you shoot it with a fire extinguisher and you "put out" the flames But the wires continue to short and get hot and burn starting a new fire.

[pastorgeorgem]

@zepperjokes You Are Talking bout an ABC Dry Chem which are useless in this type of fire as one said before you can spend all day hitting it with ABC and until power to the lines is cut it's useless and if you listen he was advising some one to terminate the NG Service within 10' of the Meter I would be more worried bout that How Bout You?

[supernuller]

Good thing that wall wasn't made of wood.

[Sichyworm]

Ah, an electrical fire video. Good clean fun

[chris03653837]

is popcorn ready yet!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

[anthonym267]

what would happen of you turn a garden hose on it?

[curt2988]

popcorn

[zepperjokes]

i would have used a fire extinglesher to put out that fire not let it burn it could cause an explosion

[Slikhedgehog]

@zepperjokes

That's not a smart move, you could've been electrocuted trying that without the appropriate fire extinguisher.

Also, if it may have exploded, what's to say it might not have exploded when you approached it?

[bed928]

No kiddin there trucksoner, I'm a career fireman and a Licensed electrician, but did you ever look behind you and see the big wooden thing sticking out of the ground with all the wires on it Hmmmm, maybe it gets cut there. then who cares about the meter. its trash.

[trucksoner]

yeah i'm not an idiot, but the guy saying "remove the power source then use water, it's a class a fire then" obviously isn't saying that to someone who can shut off power at the service pole.

so i'm saying no one who was on the scene could have done that, and he seems to be telling them or whoever what to do next time.

[bed928]

remove the power source then use water, its a class a fire then

[trucksoner]

they can't shut that off, it's the meter, so it's a service connection, before the breaker panel

[liam101300]

that is true in australia we will shut power of then use water or dry chem

[tels2006]

New fuse and it'll be as good as new!!!!

[windoes98se]

i wonde what caused this?

[laurdy]

a blond plugging a hair dryer in!

[Bojoe777NaBl]

@laurdy you suck

[Anthony96922]

I want popcorn for the movies.

[peckiledorf]

aluminum wire loose and no antioxidant

[peckiledorf]

i would have put a buck in the car wash then doush the meter can and put it out the fire

[ballsniff13]

yah and you would get shock man water and electric dont mix to well trust me i know

[ajgio]

yeah but you would think the breaker would trip

[stutest2]

I LOVE POP CORN BUT NOT BURNT POPCORN

[SpiritsoftheWolf]

WHO WANTS POPCORN??

[guitarhero2x]

dude that electric meter is on freakin fire i have an idea lets vid it and put it on youtube! lol put it out!

[davyboy90]

Thing is you can't just put out an electrical fire. You need the supply to be shut off, and in cases of electricity meters, they are owned by the electricity board, and no one is allowed to tamper with their equipment. There was nothing else the person recorded the video could do.

BTW I work in the electrical industry.

[FACP07]

@davyboy90 In a case where property damage is at risk, the best course of action in this case is to physically sever the input using an insulates axe,such as a fire axe. In Texas, at least, you are allowed to use what ever means necessary to prevent loss to life or property.

[tommy13t]

put it out? tell me how you would do it?

[davyboy90]

For starters you wouldn't chuck water over something electrical, especially as its live.

Instead you need a fire extinguisher which does not have water in it or any other chemical which can short it. I think foam extinguishers are safe, along with Carbon Dioxide. :)

[soccerdude7330]

Exactly, water just makes an electrical fire worse, you need to remove one of the components of the fire first, instead of water, you gotta use carbon dioxide of some kind of extinguishing powder agent, like ABC Dry Chemical.

[trucksoner]

foam isn't safe, it must be dry chemical or CO2

[JoshyBallz4]

Naww...Foam is 98% Water...Deff Not

[cyberpurrs222]

Pretty scary.

[woww1994]

my neighbor had them happen to them once because the cable guy was drillin and he hit the main house wire and it burnt through the whole wire and some into the house

[PwnZmurkbaby]

lol what a n00b cable guy

[DancesWithBikers]

It's making popcorn.

[LargePizzaDelivery]

flamin' popcorn! :)

[robyboy718]

LOL

[preludefan]

fuck now that ladies and gentlemen is what you call an incorrectly fused system

[mdmde]

They were probably growing marijuana inside and got an overload

[pclover]

Hahahahah

[bedomido]

this what we call short circuit fault iam an electric engineer

[hdyudu]

when elecrical meters blow up like that means the unit has gone bad or it was bad from the start

more likely poorly manrfacered or instailled.

[rgsgww]

see this is right it did not short ok it was malfunctioning

[hdyudu]

something like the cord in side it not put to thar proper place

[rgsgww]

yea

[blinkingblythe]

Looks like the remains of the dial-face of the meter is sitting on the ground right in front of it in a burnt heap.

[jacobhyland]

oooooooh, fireworks.

pretty

[VideoJunkei]

sounds like popcorn!!!

[tall32guy]

Beautimous! LOL Good thing no one was right next to it when it lit up.

[xXxmidgexXx]

lol

[WDX7770243546]

ohh..............

[Cjaiceman]

How is that fake? An electrical meter failed and caught fire, then the wires shorted out and this is the result. Point out the fake in this, or shut it.

[fingerworm]

look at the floor u see the sparks bounce arround and that is very real

[xXxmidgexXx]

If this is fake, the police would have arrested them.

[hdyudu]

some of it is what called fireballs which is the hot

slag from the melting metals in the meters contens

and the meters box it self.

[SpiritsoftheWolf]

rtvoll if this is fake show us where the fake part is... if ya cannot show us then go spam your moms butt at fuckyourself dot fag

[mikeandtiff]

haha, cool