Shortly after 00:29 on 15 November 2026, homes in a residential area near an industrial zone in Wuqi District, Taichung City, lost power. Residents on local social media suspected that a transformer box had exploded. Taipower's Central Regional Office said...
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On 14 November 2026, fire crews responded to a transformer fire in New York City, according to a NewsBreak report of FDNY all-boroughs and citywide dispatch audio. The report carries an AI-generated transcript, which its publisher warns may contain errors....
On 8 November 2026, the bulk carrier Meishangang 57 (Meishan Gang57), belonging to Zhejiang Daishan Hongcheng Shipping Company, was sailing from Changzhou in Jiangsu to the 3-1 anchorage at Jingtang Port when it struck turbine S09 at the Tangshan Shunhuan...
A fire broke out at a Bob's fast-food restaurant in the central area of Porto Seguro, near the Trevo do Cabral, on the morning of Saturday 14 November 2026. Initial reports suggested the flames may have started in the kitchen. However, officers from the 6th...
An estimated 673 customers across Coronado Village, California, lost power on Monday night, with the outage affecting the northern and western parts of the neighbourhood. By a 9:30 p.m. update most had their power back, but roughly 280 residences remained...
A fire broke out at an electrical substation in Agramonte, a rural locality in the municipality of Jagüey Grande, Matanzas province, Cuba, on the evening of Friday 13 November 2026, according to citizen reports circulated on digital platforms. The fire was...
On a Friday night in November 2026, at about 8 pm, a fire broke out in a stock of electricity cable belonging to L&T, the company named in the source, which had been kept beside the boundary wall of Ramnagar Fort in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. Flames were...
Civil Protection crews in Cairo brought under control a large fire that broke out inside an electricity transformer in the Al-Basatin police district. Preliminary investigations indicated that an electrical short circuit inside the transformer started the...
On Saturday 7 November 2026, a fire was reported at about 12.15 pm in a transformer house operated by grid operator Stedin on Ter Aase Zuwe in Nieuwer Ter Aa, the Netherlands, according to a single local news report. The fire service arrived quickly but could...
A fire broke out at about 5.00 am in a transformer house on the Alexanderstraat in Hoorn, Netherlands. The blaze cut power to around 1,000 households. Several emergency services attended, and the incident was quickly escalated because of its location....
On the morning of Friday 13 November 2026, a fire broke out at a solar PV installation on floating pontoons in Ostend harbour, Belgium, at the corner of Ankerstraat and Vismijnlaan. The installation was lying on land at the quay and was normally used for...
A fire destroyed an industrial warehouse of about 3,600 square metres on Strada Ventiquattresima in Labico, in the metropolitan area south-east of Rome, Italy. The alarm was raised at about 10.35 on the day of the report. The flames engulfed the whole...
A fire broke out in a wind turbine at Dingen in the Dithmarschen district in the early hours of a Friday morning. A police patrol car crew noticed the flames at around 03:30 and alerted the fire service through the regional control centre. Firefighters from...
A fire broke out in a room of a five-bedroom residential building at Oke-Boda, Asaka area of Awe, Oyo State, Nigeria, on Wednesday 11 November 2026. The Oyo State Fire Services Agency said the fire was reportedly caused by overheating of a solar panel system....
On Thursday 12 November 2026, at about 10 am, a fire was reported at a solar plant operated by a private company in the Karada border area of Fatehgarh, Jaisalmer district, Rajasthan. According to Dainik Bhaskar, flames and thick black smoke were visible from...
On Tuesday night, which the report dates to 10 November 2026, CCTV at the Good Hope distribution substation in East Coast Demerara recorded two individuals at the site at about 10.46 pm. One threw a Molotov cocktail, an improvised firebomb, into the energised...
A transformer fire at around 6 a.m. on a Wednesday morning cut power to more than 70 PG&E customers in the area of San Jose and Maroa Avenues, near Fig Garden Village. A local viewer reported hearing a loud bang shortly before the power went out and contacted...
On the morning of 11 November 2026, a fire broke out at a factory in Kunugizawa Nishi, Yamagata City, Japan, which the source identifies as a factory of Shachihata Engineering. According to the fire service, passers-by reported black smoke rising from the...
A fire broke out on Wednesday 11 November 2026 at the Transformer Repairing Workshop (TRW) in Paschimpali, a densely populated area of Kishanganj city in Bihar, India, according to Amar Ujala. Flames reportedly rose to about 50 feet, smoke was visible from a...
A fire at a CEEE Equatorial electricity substation in Canguçu, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, caused several customers in the municipality to lose electricity on Monday 9 November 2026. Smoke filled the substation yard, and a fire brigade team was sent to the...