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March 30, 2023
Home » NERC Presents Lessons Learned on Substation Fires
Firefighters arrived before utility workers at this 2010 transformer fire in Denver, making matters worse by using water that may have spread burning transformer oil. | Firefighters arrived before utility workers at this 2010 transformer fire in Denver, making matters worse by using water that may have spread burning transformer oil.
By Rich Heidorn Jr. Consolidated Edison’s Anthony Natale has summarized what he’s learned about substation fires over two decades in several bullet points. But the biggest lesson, he says, is one of humility. "These are low-frequency, high-hazard events. We don’t do them often enough to get good at them," he...
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