WPVI Action News At 4PM March 8, 2017
Tap water could use as a conductor. Who could have been a bad fire could have become a deadly incident. There are minerals in the water that could interact with the electricity and unfortunately cause electrocution and harm to those fighting the fire. Deenergizing a substation of this size is not easy. Once that was confirmed. There were more steps to take. We not only remotely opened the switches to stop the throw of electricity to this facility. We confirmed manually there was no power flowing in the area where these firefighters were about to fight this fire. Finally by the numbers here. La...