Electric pole on fire, people were scared out of their wits

(Baonghean.vn) - At 7:00 a.m. on October 13, in Hamlet 5, Thanh My Commune (Thanh Chuong), an electric pole fire broke out.

According to witnesses, at the above time, an electric pole at the intersection, near market 32, hamlet 5, suddenly had an electrical short circuit and caught fire.

Seeing the smoke and fire, people in the area brought buckets and basins to scoop sand and throw it on the electric pole to put out the fire. But the more sand they threw, the stronger the fire burned.

People are putting out the electric pole fire.

Seeing that it was ineffective, everyone turned off the main circuit breaker and used water to put out the fire. After about 25 minutes, the fire was extinguished.

The initial cause of the fire was believed to be heavy rain, an electrical short circuit, which caused a fire. As a result, the fire burned down two electric meters and some wires. From this fire, people in the area learned the basic principle of handling electrical short circuits: you must turn off the circuit breaker when fighting a fire.

Huy Thu