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Fires reported at electrical substations in Shkodër

Dec 2024Published 29 Sept 2026Responsible editor: Chief Editor

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What happened

On 13 December 2024, A2 CNN reported a fire at the electrical substation in Draçin, Shkodër, with power outages in some areas of the city. The same report said the fire also involved two other electrical substations. A fire-service account in that report described five events at once: an electric cabin in Kiras, three further small electric cabins, and then the Draçin substation. The cause was not established. An equipment defect was suspected, while the fire service was reported to have linked some cabin explosions to electrical charge.

Household property next to a substation was damaged, with a reported loss of over 10 million old lek. Firefighters were reported to have extinguished the flames. No injuries or fatalities were reported.

Contributing factors

Not established. The report suspected an equipment defect and also relayed a fire-service account that electrical charge was involved in some cabin explosions.

Lessons learned

  1. A substation fire beside homes can damage property outside the asset and should be managed as a public-safety event as well as a network fault.
  2. Several cabin or substation alarms at once should be checked for a common electrical cause rather than treated only as separate fires.
  3. Do not state a cause until inspection distinguishes an equipment defect from other ignition sources.

More lessons on emergency response and public communication, detection and monitoring, maintenance, inspection and ageing assets, from every incident on the register.

Source

a2news.com

Published 2026-09-29. Written from public reporting. Descriptive, not investigative. See the data accuracy disclaimer.

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