An electrical transformer caught fire causing a large explosion at the Hoover Dam in Nevada. No one was injured.
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Fire from a Tuesday morning transformer explosion at the Hoover Dam was quickly extinguished, caused no injuries and is not a threat to the power grid, according to the Bureau of Reclamation's regional director for the Lower Colorado Region.
Authorities are investigating what caused the fire, the federal Bureau of Reclamation said. In videos posted on social media, a huge plume of black smoke could be seen at the dam.
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Pray for the safety of everyone
🙏🙏🙏
Perhaps more electrical preventative maintenance should be going on at important sites such as this one under Federal regulations
In pretty sure they have big maintenance schedules at the hoover damn, Have you ever been ? anyways there are more than matience failures that can fry a transformer especially one that size. Probably doesn’t help with the extreme loads combined with the local heat right now
its a case of the transformer pretty much worn out you dont know when they might blow just a couple years the one for my block litterally bluew its top accross the street
This was done on purpose
SABOTAGE
Do you think it was Caesar’s Legion???
@kelly thomas nope do you even know how to read it was a transformer was no sabatogue the go bad after a while doesnt matter if its for aneighborhood or what not. Stop spreading lies
@kelly thomas thats natural they always do that to help the river out they dont do it all the time. Do some research
And I don’t care what anyone thinks cause I feel it
You’re going to really feel it when the water goes dry because there’s no way without Hoover dam there’s enough electricity to run California Nevada Utah Arizona and Mexico
Get out of Vegas
I would! 100%
Everybody must get out of the western states he better start heading east because there’s no electricity or water without Hoover dam or Lake Mead
@Luvvin Lovelock honestly personally i think all states should be cut off from hover dam and lake paul til the water levels get up
@Luvvin Lovelock…lol…Hoover Damn only powers around 675000 homes right now , and those homes can be switched over to a different grid .
But actually Lake Meade water level has risen by nearly 10 ft this year.
Was it an ABB, SMIT or Westinghouse unit?
MEGATRON GOT LOOSE
I know you’re trying to make it sound funny but it’s going to be a nightmare you remember that movie water world that’s what’s going to happen I give it five years if that
China can help!
Are you serious they have nothing that we need we need water and it’s going to be a hot commodity.
@Luvvin Lovelock Did they find out the root cause?
@Luvvin Lovelock China has 6 in the top 10 world hydropower stations.
yup! send some spare water over pls. Europe needs it.
@Edmund Teoh China can provide equipment and experience excepts water.
Dam russiqn hackers 30 food processing plants now the dam they all seem to go up in flames
I grew up around lake Mead. Please stop wasting water she doesn’t have much left. When she runs out of water, all the desert around will be gone it will be called the biggest Ghost Town in the US please stop wasting water and stop building in Las Vegas!!!
Biden did that
Megatron’s escaping
Ok, so why are they spraying water on an electrical fire?