Wind turbine reported on fire in northern LaSalle County

What happened

On 6 January 2023, NBC 5 Chicago published a video whose title says it shows a wind turbine burning in northern LaSalle County. The text available to the register is the headline only. The date of the fire, the site, the operator, the cause, any injuries, and the extent of damage or operational impact are not reported.

Contributing factors

Not reported.

Lessons learned

1. A video title can show that a turbine fire was reported, but missing detail is not evidence that there was no damage or no response.
2. Until a fuller account exists, the location, time and outcome of a reported turbine fire should be treated as unknown rather than assumed.
3. Footage of a burning turbine is a prompt to ask whether debris, access and neighbouring assets were affected, which this report does not say.

Source

nbcchicago.com