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 Post subject: Fire Causes Explosion or Explosion Causes Fire?
PostPosted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 4:02 am 
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A report in The Report (Troy, NY) describes an underground electrical explosion in a 34,500 volt power line.

This incident sounds like an arc flash in an aging electrical system. But the news headline calls it an explosion caused by a fire. If you were investigating this, what would you say happened?

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Read the complete article in [url='http://troyrecord.com/articles/2012/09/28/news/doc50653ca40169a904058259.txt']The Record (click here).[/url]


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