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Apartment Fire burns while firefighters wait for electric co

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TNFF412N
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PostPosted: Fri 15-Aug-2008 17:33    Post subject: Reply with quote
pulling the meter would not have helped in this according to the report
the fire was right below the electrical box so they had to wait for the electrical company
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DSYCUTTER
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PostPosted: Fri 15-Aug-2008 17:35    Post subject: Reply with quote
well why didnt they put some frickin water on it!?! Fog pattern is ur friend.....
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PostPosted: Fri 15-Aug-2008 19:43    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sorry I've been busy today,Let me explain a little more about this run: The dateline said Blacklick, OH, But that's the mailing address. The complex is in the City of Columbus and It was their run. Columbus had annexed a little strip of are thru our district to the county line. We had 4 engines, 2 medics, 1 ladder, 1 rescue, and 2 chiefs there thru mutual aide/automatic response. (More of our equipment was on the card than CFD's) The fire was where the underground power comes up into a junction box, that splits off into separate meters for each unit, So pulling the meter would not help. Because of a electric power deregulation bill that Ohio passed years ago. AEP (which is the primary provider to Franklin County) does not service the complex. Nationwide Energy Partners has a contract with the condo developers to supply electrical service to all properties they build. The big problem was that nobody at CFD knew who NEP was or how to get a hold of them. AEP refused to respond because it was not their service area. The only thing they could have done was shut down their grid for their surrounding service area, (15,000 people and a major state highway) and hope that would kill power. Because of the stupid deregulation bill that was suppose to save us money, AEP would have been breaking the law if they directly messed with the complex's grid. The whole law was stupid, luckily we haven't had any major brown outs, like California's utility law did. Just another case of "we're from the government, we're here to help you".
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