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Refurbished. >> the salt got into the electrical relays, switches, circuit breakers, all went in the garbage. >> as we get up here, i dont know how comfortable i am talking about all the things you had to fix. >> reporter: coney islands business owners say they can laugh a little bit more because some say business is back. >> its like a mini miracle in our time. >> reporter: do you think the people will get the message to come out here on the fourth? >> theyre already coming down here. >> report...

Flash, i mean, flash, and it took all of our breaths way. >> the balloon could burn. it could catch on fire. the tanks could explode and kill people. >> with circuit breakers cutting the power from the line temporarily -- >> im thinking, my god. what are they going to do? i cant see how theyre going to get down from there without something happening. >> the balloon is suspended in a deadly tangle of high tension wires. then suddenly, the power surges on again. >> oh, jesus. >> oh, jesus. >> ther...

Plunges and we have seen those circuit break wreers where if a stock moves 10% or more, youll see that go into effect and stop trading. dont know why that didnt happen. at this time, that is something that we are looking into. but this has happened in the past where actual individual shares have fallen dramatically based on news headlines and those circuit breakers certainly do go into effect, chris. >> i wonder if theyre going to have to start putting in different kind of vetting of what they d...

>> with circuit breakers cutting the power from the line temporarily -- >> im thinking, my god. what are they going to do. i cant see how theyre going to get down from there without something happening. >> the balloon is suspended in a deadly tangle of high tension wires. then suddenly, the power surges on again. >> oh, jesus. >> oh, jesus. >> there was a bigger flash and i -- i truly thought that whoever was in the gondola must be burned to death because it was a tremendous flash. >> another bi...

Get hurt very badly. he races downstairs to shut off the circuit breakers. the pickup truck driver and passenger flee and its not until weeks later that he discovers why the driver lost control of his vehicle. >> apparently these two gentlemen were coal miners working the midnight shift and they had both just fallen asleep and they had a pretty rude awakening. >> its not an uncommon story. the national highway safety administration estimates that sleeping drivers cause 100,000 crashes a year, al...

When it sensed there was an be a nor mali or something wrong in the system, in this case it sound like it was a power surge, it then activates the communication to trip what they call circuit breakers which are really great big switches. so think of the light switch that you turn on and off in a room to put the lights on or off. a circuit breaker is basically that same thing but within a facility like the super dome or on a utilitys distribution network it is a much larger switch and has a lot o...

>> at the point of impact, i had to close my eyes because i didnt want to see what was going to happen. >> he is trapped outside in a 2 by 2 space between an ice machine and the wrecked pickup truck. >> i was scared. my heart was beating 1,000 miles a minute. >> amid the terror and confusion, he manages to keep a clear head. >> i jumped over the railing, called 911. >> 911. >> yeah, we just had an accident at hatfield mccoy quick stop. somebody hit our pump and its on fire. >> then i went back i...

Took all of our breaths way. >> the balloon could burn. it could catch on fire. the tanks could explode and kill people. >> with circuit breakers cutting the power from the line temporarily -- >> im thinking, my god. what are they going to do. i cant see how theyre going to get down from there without something happening. >> the balloon is suspended in a deadly tangle of high tension wires. then suddenly, the power surges on again. >> oh, jesus. >> oh, jesus. >> there was a bigger flash and i --...

Close we all were for somebody to possibly die or get hurt very badly. >> fearing another explosion, he races downstairs to shut off the circuit breakers. the pickup trucks driver and passenger flee, and its not until weeks later that he discovers why the driver lost control of his vehicle. >> apparently these two gentlemen membership were coal miners. they had both just fallen asleep and they bothad a pretty rude awakening. >> its not an uncommon story. the national highway safety administratio...

Lines. >> all of a sudden, theres this flash, i mean, flash, and it took all of our breaths away. >> the balloon could burn, could catch on fire, the tanks explode and kill people. >> but circuit breakers automatically cut the power from the line, temporarily. >> so im thinking, my god, what are they going to do? you know, its -- theres -- i cant see how theyre going to get down from there without something happening. >> the balloon is suspended in a deadly tangle of high-tension wires. then, su...