Gamma Ray Digital had a front-row seat from across the turnpike this morning as a utility pole topped with a transformer fell across Lincoln Street near Everett Street in Allston, ending with not one but three explosions and, of course, a smoke-belching fire.
John Perotti, who looks like he's a couple doors down from Gam, videoed the conflagration:
@universalhub Big electricity arc sound at the office, then this at the corner of Lincoln and Everett along the pike: pic.twitter.com/s3yBvVuwNN
— John Perotti (@johnperotti) July 21, 2021
Afterwards, Gamma Ray Digital captured the pole, now ready for its close-up, Mr. DeMille:
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Transformer on a Pole
By Refugee
Wed, 07/21/2021 - 11:19am
Transformer on a Pole
“Drama royalty” is the
By Lee
Wed, 07/21/2021 - 11:23am
“Drama royalty” is the preferred non sexist albeit classist term.
More than meets the eye!
By anon
Wed, 07/21/2021 - 11:44am
nt
Toxic smoke?
By perruptor
Wed, 07/21/2021 - 11:47am
They used to fill transformers with PCBs. Are they using something less toxic now?
Yes
By caitchip
Wed, 07/21/2021 - 6:10pm
Transformers manufactured after 1978 contain non-PCB mineral oil dielectric fluid. Transformers aren’t routinely switched out, so if this one is older, it could contain PCBs. But having remediated a lot of transformer releases as a former electrical utility contractor, I can tell you that most of even the older ones I encountered did not contain PCBs.
Lucky this didn't fall on a car
By Ron Newman
Wed, 07/21/2021 - 12:14pm
That's not an especially quiet intersection.
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