When I drove into the RV park at 10:30 this morning, dark gray smoke was billowing from the transformer atop a telephone pole on the southeastern corner of the property. 911 promised to send the electric company right away. Before they arrived, a loud noise rocked the RV. A peek outside revealed our 78-year old neighbor aiming a too-short hose at ten-foot high flames leaping from sagebrush bushes at the base of the pole. His wife called 911 as I filled a bucket from our site's spigot. Just then, four electric company trucks pulled up and the men tackled the fire. They speculated that lightning accompanying the violent weekend storms had damaged the transformer but didn't know what triggered it to blow up today.
All in all, we're fortunate that the incident occurred while some of us were home because most of the time, all five residents are gone. And we're lucky that the electric company responded quickly cause the fire department never showed up.
Burned area
(elderly neighbor's RV on left, ours on the right)
New transformer
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