Video: GTA homeowner liable for damage after smart meter catches fire 

Drive your car into the utility building, tell them your only responsible for your car.

If your meter causes damage, then the party causing the damage is the responsible party , sue them for causing the harm, let a jury decide.

So basically, this company can get away with arson...

If the electric company installed a faulty meter that in turn caused damage, they are responsible for the damage caused by their equipment.

Sounds like HydroOne owes this guy a couple thousand for arson, vandalism, reckless endangerment of life and property, and possibly fraud.

That's lawsuit worthy. You can't charge the home owner for your meter that almost burned his house down. Insane.

I own a can of gasoline and a box of matches.

Smart meter:

Lawsuit! Their meter caused the problem, they are responsible and at fault.

My local power company tried to install that smart meter on my home without my consent. I came home one day from work an caught them in my yard trying to install it. I asked them what were they doing an then told them that they had to put my meter back. Then I told them that they had 5 minutes to do so or I'd come back with my bat. They sent 2 cops an another worker out to my house an said they have to either install a smart meter or they will shut my power off. Well I still have my old meter an my power is still on. In my town 4 houses already burned down to the smart meters an I'm sorry but I like my house just the way it is

this is how i feel about it....His system was working just fine before the meter upgrade. if the system on the house is older and the system on the house is the homeowners property and responsibility the power company should have been required to get permission before upgrading the meter. obviously somthing was connected improperly or was not compatible. so in my opion it is 100% the responsibility of the power company to replace what has been damaged. this could have caused this person and his family to lose everything they had.

Good thing the house was made of brick.

The hydro company is the one that installed the metre on outdated lines. They knew the metre needed updated lines but installed it anyway. That's their fault. Your metre caused the fire not the homeowners equipment. His stuff worked fine for decades.

If your meter cause my house to burn down It's going to cost you more than 5000 dollars.

have read many reports of these meters going up in flames. Never the old style reliable, analog ones.

Smart, spontaneously combusting meters 😑

I think if the electric co. comes to change the meter out and notices that the box isn't in good standing, they should talk to the homeowner and advise them to get that fixed before installing the new smart meter.....

so now they send an auto destruct code and they receive 5000 from the home owners now that's business

So really, that guy just proved the home owners case. The owner owns everything but the meter and lines coming in. So if the meter caught everything on fire, that means the electric companies property caused damaged to the home owners property.

When the new meter was installed, the installer didn't use the anti-oxidant past as required. The new meter uses aluminum connectors, the old cable in the building is copper. The 2 metals expand & contracts at different rates. They conduct electricity differently. The antioxidant past is used to ensure a good connection between the different metals. If not used, arcing can occur and could cause an electrical fire. And the comment about the age of the cabling. 30-years is not old for electrical. The cable used back then was better than the cable I can buy today. Cable is copper and copper cost money. The new cable is a copper mix that sucks. Take them to court and make they pay for lieing to you and pay for the repair too.