Transformer Fires News Today

Police say the surges are also causing light signals to fail and creating smoke in buildings.

Currently at the 101 west end. where one of the transformer fires broke out. theres a lot of people standing around. people with dogs who are standing around hook at the building. i tried to talk to some of the policemen. no one has given me any information on what exactly is going on. im looking at a fire truck. im looking at a fire truck, like one of the smaller trucks. it looks like they were trying to pull out some flashlights. it looks like they may be going toward the elevator. there may b...

Tourists and locals decide to just open the windows and wait it out or try to leave the neighborhood for the night. >> and again, nobody knows how long this is going to last because first and foremost, they need to determine the root cause of this. transformer fires have popped up. stand by for me, brian, i want to head out to the streets, polo sandoval is in midtown manhattan. polo, were seeing in some of these images a lot of flashing lights, a lot of authorities out there now trying to do tra...

To our south right on the beach. we had to get out of there very quickly because the water literally within five minutes started rising and coming toward us. it was up to our knees. we knew it would get much deeper. weve also seen a lot of transformer fires. power lines are coming out and fires are not being put out because the fire officials arent out right now. everyone is taking care of their families and taking care of critical situations. the situation near the coast is scary, we think its ...

The northeast. theres a lot of damage in these little towns weve been touring. a lot of power lines down and weve seen transformer fires on the sides of roads. we spent part of the day today in shell point beach. quickly the water started rising because of great concern here and is still a great concern because these are all low elevations right now at ten feet and the storm surge is expected to go as high as 13, 14 feet. thats why there was a mandatory evacuation which began at 8:00 last night ...

Traffic accidents, flooding, as well as in a tornado. in canada, the storm brought ice that toppled trees and led to transformer fires. 250,000 people in toronto alone republican currently without power. and much of the country is in for temperatures well below normal. dangerous windchills theyll be facing, as well. thats not all. chad meyers will break it all down for us. this isnt a sort of merry christmas when were talking about weather. >> no, when you dont have power and you have a windchil...

Years. and there are so many problems. you mentioned the leakage of radio activity. vermont yankee has a massive leakage of radio active hydrogen into the ground water, into the connecticut river. its going greatly exasser bait the clean up cost of the clean up. it eegs a risky one as well. given its age and bad design to begin with they have had serious incidents. they had a cooling tower collapse and the age degre dags. they have had transformer fires. that plant needs to be shut down as soon ...

Absolutely unbelievable. guys? >> it really is. thanks very much. in manhattan, the lights are out and floods are a major problem. we have a look at the scene in hard hit lower manhattan. >> the storm has thrust much of lower manhattan into darkness. behind me is 39th street. you can look over my shoulder, and you can see that for the most part very few lights are visible. very few cars are on the road. most people wisely deciding to stay home. there have been a number of transformer fires thr...