Sunnyvale fire

On 2008-Dec-15, at ~7pm, residences around Wolfe and El Camino in Sunnyvale experienced a power outage, caused by a 4000-volt power line falling to the ground due to rain and crappy old wooden electricity poles near the old kindergarten at Gary and Wolfe.

The power line created a MASSIVE arc welding fire with enormous sparks and electrical whizzing that got all nearby residents out of their homes. Within a few minutes, there were 5 fire trucks at the scene, 2 police vans, 1 emergency van, 1 PG&E utility vehicle, and traffic on Gary Ave. was diverted.

Within an hour, electricity was cut off, along with DSL. The power outage lasted until ~9pm, while DSL Internet access was back around 11pm.

More information at
http://www.topix.net/city/sunnyvale-ca/2008/12/source-of-mondays-power-outage...

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News & Politics

Tags:

• Sunnyvale
• electric fire
• power outage
• disaster
• short circuit

[Battlecity0]

So that's what that was! I ended up losing my Tv beacuse of that >.> it blew it's bulb thing inside :| it was pretty old though xd

[Stealthguy06]

We were at Marrie Calenders on El Camino when the power went out in the whole shoping centre... Then.. Sirens=uh oh