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A video shared widely on social media shows a worker from a Venezuelan utility company using two-litre bottles of soft drink to put out a fire in an electrical transformer. The incident took place on 2 November 2026 in Valle de la Pascua, Guárico state. The...
On Sunday 8 November 2026, a brush fire broke out at the Galax Solar Farm on Hebron Road in Galax, Virginia. Arriving units found the slow-moving fire at about 3:04 p.m. Galax Fire Department crews laid 600 feet of forestry line to protect the main field and...
On the morning of 9 November 2026, a fire broke out in an electrical substation located on the underground parking levels of the Fashion Drive shopping plaza in the San Pedro municipality of Monterrey, Mexico. Firefighters and other emergency services were...
A fire broke out in an electrical transformer at the Tellalar Çarşısı, a historic bazaar in Mardin, Turkey, according to a report published by Mardin Life on 9 November 2026. The cause had not been determined at the time of reporting. Smoke and flames rising...
A fire started at a commercial premises on the morning of Monday 9 November 2026 in the Bela Vista neighbourhood of Chapecó, Brazil. When the Corpo de Bombeiros (fire service) arrived, the owner and bystanders had already controlled the flames using fire...
Early on Sunday 8 November 2026, a fire broke out at the Mayfair Substation in Johannesburg, South Africa. According to the municipal utility City Power, the blaze left thousands of residents, businesses and critical facilities in Mayfair, Auckland Park,...
On Sunday 8 November 2026, at around 10.40, a fire broke out among electrical components at a Transener transformer station in La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, according to preliminary reporting. Transener operates the high-voltage transmission...
The St. Cloud Fire Department responded to a fire at a solar array near 24000 Franklin Road South in St. Cloud on Friday 6 November 2026. The call was received at 9:08 a.m. On arrival, firefighters found a transformer on fire within the array. Crews secured...
A fire broke out on the afternoon of Friday 6 November 2026 at a home in the San Antonio residential development in Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, Mexico. The fire damaged three solar panels and a power converter (inverter). The source estimates material losses at...
On the night of Saturday 7 November 2026, a fire followed by a strong explosion was reported at an Âmbar Energia substation on Rua Wilkens de Matos in the Aparecida district of Manaus, Brazil, according to Portal do Zacarias. Residents living nearby told the...
At about 10:03 on 7 November 2026, a fire broke out at a roadside transformer near the Terminal Intersection in Sajeong-dong, Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang Province. A Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) official reported that the transformer had exploded....
On the evening of 6 November 2026, according to RomaToday, a fire destroyed an electrical cabin (cabina elettrica) on Via Città di Castello in the Fleming district of Rome. The fire broke out at around 21:00, causing a sudden loss of power and leaving several...
An alarm was raised for a fire in a basement in Alghero, Italy, and a whole building was evacuated. Firefighters arrived and found that a battery pack of the building's solar photovoltaic system had burned, producing smoke and an acrid smell. The duty officer...
On 6 November 2026, ANTIKOR reported that a fire broke out at an electrical substation in the Kyiv region of Ukraine after a strike that the report attributes to Russia. Footage circulating online showed the facility engulfed in flames after the impact. The...
Fire crews were called on a Friday morning to a solar panel farm at the Saint Cloud Nutrient, Energy, and Water (NEW) Recovery Facility, a wastewater treatment plant in St. Cloud, after a transformer caught fire. Firefighters started work around 9 a.m. and...
A powerful explosion occurred in an electricity transformer at the eighth cross of KTJ Nagar in Davanagere, India, according to a report by The Siasat Daily that cites CCTV footage. The blast was followed by a large burst of flames that engulfed an adjoining...
A fire broke out at a two-storey Vector electrical substation on McNab Street, Penrose, Auckland, on 5 November 2026. Fire and Emergency New Zealand was alerted at 3.24pm and sent 12 crews, three aerial appliances and three special appliances. Crews found the...
In the early hours of 4 November 2026, an explosion and large fire occurred at a Celesc substation in the Aririú district of Palhoça, in the Greater Florianópolis area of Santa Catarina state, Brazil. The blast and fire cut supply to almost 70,000 consumer...
In the early hours of 4 November 2026, an explosion followed by a fire occurred at a substation of Centrais Elétricas de Santa Catarina (Celesc) in Palhoça, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Preliminary information indicates the fire began during an attempt to steal...
Local media report that an explosion and fire occurred at the Federación substation in Libertad parish, Lagunillas municipality, Zulia state, Venezuela, which reportedly left several sectors of Ciudad Ojeda without electricity. Videos shared on social media...