She blowed up real good

Substation fire at Makaloa St., Honolulu, 0730am Sunday 19 December 2010. Heavy drizzle likely initiated a short circuit.

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[zekebauer]

No lightining. Just heavy drizzle = short circuit.

[NathanH5]

@qqqdb777

Interesting!! Did H.E. ever find out why the arcing faults within the transformer were not sensed by upstream reclosers and stopped? I do hear what sounds like a loud bang or thump just as the arcing stops, obviously the power being shut off...possible phase-to-phase fault just before the power went off? Generally phase-to-phase faults trigger the recloser to open much more quickly than a phase-to-ground fault. Your opinion?

[qqqdb777]

@NathanH5 -- Hawaiian Electric, operator of the transformer, reported that "water seeped into Makaloa 2 and triggered an electrical fire that destroyed the transformer and its switch gear"(Honolulu Star-Advertiser 24 Dec 2010, "Power dodgy at Ala Moana").

Sorry the camera goes up in the air at your moment of truth, but there was a 200-foot fireball at that particular juncture in time that distracted the videographer's attention :-)

[ffjsb]

@cassius969 Yeah, a lot of other countries don't have electricity. What a stupid statement.

[KarlosPayalos]

ПИЗДАТО ОДНАКО)

[rojblake82]

@qqqdb777 To be near high voltage, electricity is highly dangerous and to get a lethal electric shock is not nice you end up dead and burnt to toast.

[JoshdaROCKSTAR9999VS]

We had so much fun with candles the night this happened.

[VonBonnK]

Somebody needs to hire a new relay technician...should of tripped out way before this.

[smurfboywv]

Do the power companies insure these sub stations? Thats a very expensive equipment malfunction.

[Barnekkid]

@mattfirebird Don't have em.

[cassius969]

Only in America.

[mattfirebird]

I bet it was a squirrel.

[bigredc222]

Electric is COOL.