EDISON FIRE EXTINGUISHED TRANSFORMER FAILS, CAUSES FIERCE BLAZE.Byline: Greg Botonis Staff Writer ACTON - A blaze that lit up the sky Friday night and into Saturday morning at 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. substation was finally extinguished after more than seven hours. Dozens of firefighters including a specialized team from Air Force Plant 42 were called in to help battle the blaze caused by a failed transformer and fueled by mineral oil used to cool the transformers. ``We continue to have the situation, fortunately, where no customers are affected,'' said SCE SCE (in Scotland) Scottish Certificate of Education SCE n abbr (= Scottish Certificate of Education) → Schulabschlusszeugnis in Schottland spokesman Gil Alexander. Officials began their initial assessment to try to determine what caused the equipment failure but said it may be several weeks before they can make a determination. When the fire was reported just after 6:30 p.m. Friday, fire crews could see the flames rising, more than 100 feet in the air, from as far away as 10 miles. Crews battled the blaze throughout the night and into the early morning hours but because of the intense heat of the boiling mineral oil, the blaze raged on. Fire crews even attempted to smoother the blaze using foam, but the foam just baked and burned away. By about 1:30 a.m., crews had the blaze extinguished but then spent the next several hours spraying the transformers to cool them down. Officials said the one person who was at the substation when the fire broke out was not injured. Highway traffic coming into the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley was affected by slowing vehicles and road blocks, when California Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. officers barricaded 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. off-ramp and one lane along the road past the fire. The road was still partially blocked as of Saturday afternoon. Southern California Edison customers experienced lights flickering but none lost power, officials said. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. SCE officials, the substation has high-voltage wires entering one side, carrying power in from other states. Those high-voltage lines then pass through the transformers, which decrease the voltage and then continue out the other side to homes and businesses throughout Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, . Official say after they make their determination as to what caused the transformer to fail, they will begin the task of replacing the damaged equipment. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color in Verb 1. color in - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" color, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour AV edition -- ran in AV and SAC edition only) Flames looming more than 100 feet tall dwarf the firefighters battling it Friday night at a Southern California Edison substation. The Acton blaze was caused by a failed transformer. Paul Weatherman/Special to the Daily News |
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