EDISON CO. STATION EXPLODES; NO INJURIES.Byline: Ryan Oliver and Charles Bostwick Staff Writers A 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. power substation exploded Friday night, sending flames shooting up to 100 feet in the air south of Palmdale. The Vincent Substation explosion and fire, which was being blamed on equipment failure, burned late into the night - fed by 230,000 gallons of mineral oil stored at the facility, officials said. No injuries were reported and Edison customers experienced flickering lights Flickering Lights (Danish: Blinkende Lygter) is a Danish action-comedy from 2000 by Anders Thomas Jensen. Plot Flickering Light is about a gang of four men, who on a mission robs a case with four million kroner. but no power outages This is a list of famous wide-scale power outages. 1965
Los Angeles County firefighters arrived at the scene initially but specialized units from Air Force Plant 42 had to be called in to deal with the oil fire. The explosion cast a glow that could be seen more than 10 miles away, easily visible to motorists in the sparsely populated Acton region near the Antelope Valley Freeway The Antelope Valley Freeway is a freeway in Los Angeles and Kern counties in southern California. It is signed as California State Highway 14 along its length. It connects Greater Los Angeles to the rapidly developing Antelope Valley. and the Angeles Forest Highway The Angeles Forest Highway traverses the Angeles National Forest and connects the Los Angeles basin to the Antelope Valley by going up and over the San Gabriel Mountains. The highway is variously known as County Road N-3 or FH-59 or the Palmdale cutoff. It is about 25 miles long. interchange. ``It looked like fireworks fireworks: see pyrotechnics. fireworks Explosives or combustibles used for display. Of ancient Chinese origin, fireworks evidently developed out of military rockets and explosive missiles and accompanied the spread of military explosives westward to over the mountains and then smoke started coming up,'' said 15-year-old Allison Cornett For the place in England, see . The cornett, cornetto or zink is an early wind instrument, dating from the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods. It was used in what are now called alta capellas or wind ensembles. , riding with her mother on the Antelope Valley Freeway toward Palmdale just after 6:30 p.m. ``We saw it was the (substation) on fire and flames were shooting up.'' Edison spokesman Steve Conroy said one of the transformers apparently failed and ignited a bath of mineral oil the transformer sits in. Fire officials said that explosion subsequently ignited two other transformers. ``It is a fairly large piece of equipment and it does contain mineral oil,'' Conroy said. ``Obviously, the mineral oil is flammable but it does not pose a health risk.'' Conroy said one worker was at the facility when failure occurred, but was unharmed. Once the fire is out, Conroy said, Edison would begin assessing the damage. ``We're looking at isolating the substation and routing power around it,'' he said. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Firefighters at a burning Southern California Edison substation are dwarfed by flames. Paul Weatherman/Special to the Daily News |
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