ANTELOPE VALLEY BRIEFLY\Power-pole fire burns parked car.Byline: Daily News PALMDALE - An exploding insulator insulator Substance that blocks or retards the flow of electric current or heat. An insulator is a poor conductor because it has a high resistance to such flow. Electrical insulators are commonly used to hold conductors in place, separating them from one another and from on a power pole power pole Noun Austral & NZ a pole carrying an overhead power line caused a small fire that burned part of a parked car, fire officials said. Officials said an insulator blew up at 37909 Sixth Street E. at 2:03 p.m. Saturday, hit a parked car nearby and burned brush in the area before fire officials were able to extinguish Extinguish Retire or pay off debt. the blaze. The incident caused a 30-second interruption to 3,400 electricity customers, said Denise Henderson, region manager for Southern California Edison Southern California Edison (or SCE Corp), the largest subsidiary of Edison International (NYSE: EIX), is the primary electricity supply company for much of Southern California. It provides 11 million people with electricity. , who said the disruption was due to equipment failure. "It was a brief interruption while our system reset itself," she said. |
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