Fire in Zwijndrecht transformer room cuts power to about 1,330 households
Apr 2016Published 13 Nov 2026Responsible editor: Chief Editor
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Companies named in the reporting of this entry (being named is not a finding of fault): Stedin
What happened
On Tuesday 19 April 2016, a fire broke out in a transformer room on the Hoofdland in Zwijndrecht, the Netherlands, at around 11.50 am. The fire caused a power outage affecting about 1,330 households in the town. The fire brigade attended with several vehicles and extinguished the fire. The source indicates that a Stedin technician carried out repairs afterwards and that households then regained power, but the restoration time is not given in the available text. The source does not give the extent of damage to the equipment or the cause of the fire.
Contributing factors
The source does not state the cause of the fire or the equipment involved.
Lessons learned
- Transformer rooms should have fire detection and alarms that alert the network operator as soon as a fire starts.
- Operators should keep emergency plans with the local fire service for substation and transformer room fires, including access routes and isolation points.
- Networks should be designed so that a single transformer fault can be isolated and supplied from another route, which limits the number of customers affected.
More lessons on detection and monitoring, fire suppression and firefighting, electrical protection and isolation, from every incident on the register.
Source
Published 2026-11-13. Written from public reporting. Descriptive, not investigative. See the data accuracy disclaimer.
