{"id":758,"date":"2009-01-13T14:58:06","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T22:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/?p=758"},"modified":"2009-01-13T15:04:12","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T23:04:12","slug":"power-pole-fire-in-north-long-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/?p=758","title":{"rendered":"Power Pole Fire In North Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<p>At 2:58 pm on January 12, 2009, Engine 12 was dispatched to 6251 Paramount Blvd\u00a0to a report of arcing wires. Upon arrival, E12 crew found\u00a0active fire coming from a capacitor on a cross member.\u00a0\u00a0A large amount of\u00a0arcing was also present\u00a0at the base of the pole.\u00a0The arcing wire ignited\u00a0plant growth on\u00a0a fence line as well as set fire to the base of the pole.\u00a0 E12 crewmembers pulled two 1 inch\u00a0booster lines to cover exposures.\u00a0 Edison was notified, through dispatch, to cut power to the lines, which ignited the blaze.\u00a0 Crew stood by for approximately 1 hour until the power was shut down.\u00a0The fire was extinguished with a carbon dioxide extinguisher and water spray from the booster lines.\u00a0 Edison was notified that the base of the pole suffered deep charring from the arcing wires, which made the structural integrity of the pole suspect. No injuries were reported to firefighters or civilians during the course of this incident and the fire was contained to the area of origin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 2:58 pm on January 12, 2009, Engine 12 was dispatched to 6251 Paramount Blvd\u00a0to a report of arcing wires. Upon arrival, E12 crew found\u00a0active fire coming from a capacitor on a cross member.\u00a0\u00a0A large amount of\u00a0arcing was also present\u00a0at the base of the pole.\u00a0The arcing wire ignited\u00a0plant growth on\u00a0a fence line as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":760,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions\/760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}