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Lancaster resident urges county to press electric cooperative for details after surge-arrester fire
Summary
Bailey Loving told the Lancaster County Board of Supervisors that a failure of a metal-oxide/silicon-carbide surge arrester sparked a brush fire near his home and asked the board to request inventory, removal timeline and an after-action report from Northern Neck Electric Cooperative.
Bailey Loving, a Lancaster County resident and member of Northern Neck Electric, told the Board of Supervisors on April 23 that a failing surge arrester on a local utility pole allowed moisture to create a conductive path, triggering “thermal runaway” that caused an explosion and a brush fire near his home.
Loving said the device that failed was an older silicon-carbide surge arrester and that the silica-carbide element fused at “about 2,700°” during the event. “When that unit float exploded in front of my home causing a fire…they said that they could not determine…
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