Yeah, you're probably right. Pretty sure copper burns green, so an electrical fire would make sense, because copper cable would be burning up at that point.
And they have the highest tax rate in the nation. You wonder where the tax money is going since it certainly is not spent on infrastructure or the people. It is usually spent on NON TAXPAYERS. Dont ya love democrats.
Klab the breakers connected to it are probably 25000 ish amperes so it would have to be a direct short and they probably don’t have ground fault circuit interrupts in place
@@juliankruger3038 I think the fire was caused by your last dump. All that fat from your obese bulk was powerful enough to set it on fire. Careful, the fire might reach your toilet.
I'm surprised none of the fireman are wearing masks. Electrical fires can be incredibly hazardous, particularly if it's an underground transformer which is the source of the fire. I'm also surprised they are allowing pedestrians any near that smoke...
I'd like to see footage of the aftermath.... untold linemen has to go in there and replace those transformers or cables. How the heck do you lower transformers down holes that size anyway?
Similar thing happened in central London a few years back electrical malfunction which spread through the underground walkways and cavities burning all the crap and rubbish and gasses that accumulated down there
If ya listen close enough, you will learn why they fill a box on these calls. So much metering to do. Pain in the ass is walking and metering every where.
Must be a fuel leak or spill into the pipe systems. But if that's electrical which it may well be judging by the black smoke, is it safe pumping water onto the fire.? They deffo would have to cut the power feed.
Interesting that there was fire in 2 vaults at once. That would indicate a whole length of wire burning due to to severe overcurrent. I guess the circuit protection failed? Either that or there never was adequate overcurrent protection.
@@nickyaerobones neither do we (unless you live off a well system out in the county). However in the older big cities the sewer lines have other pipes run through them and we'll certain gases go boom if electricity is added. So if a pipe that has electric lines through them has issues and gases get in there well you get pretty light shows. Makes me happy I live in the country side.
When I watch this video I remember that from a build a manhole cover explode land right back in the hole I run so hard to go get the FDNY that lives around the corner from where I live this is why we got eliminate some of the cable death run into on the ground around the city
Definitely electrical, my question is how can there be that much crap to burn?? And putting water on an electrical fire seems extremely stupid, good way to be killed by electricution. Isn't dry chem suppose to be used on electrical fire?? I'm no firefighter so I'm not exactly sure but definitely should not be putting water on an electrical fire. How'd they extinguish that fire?? How long did it take? Good video
foam wouldn't work on electrical fires. You would need dry chemicals or shut off the power to what ever is burning so that its considered an unenergized class A fire. when its unenergized then you could flood it with just plain ole water.
I know this is one year ago this is why people we got to cut down on the electricity that’s why there’s too much electricity going place to place we need to To build a fail safe or a bypass transformer the bypass some of the electricity that goes through running under ground
Is spraying water on the fire really the best option to put it out? Doesnt that cause even more electrical shortings? Why not putting 500 pounds of sand on it to keep ogygen out? Or foam to cover it up?
Happens so often the electrical company ( Con Edison) prefers that they just flood the manholes. Sand and foam are too messy for wires they need to pull out and replace anyway.
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