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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...
On Monday 2 November 2026, an incident at Pepco's I Street Substation in the Foggy Bottom neighbourhood of Washington, DC, cut power to more than 1,000 customers. Pepco said about 1,100 customers were affected. The DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services...
A 59-year-old man died on Sunday 1 November 2026 after receiving an electric shock inside a fenced transformer station operated by Swiss Federal Railways (FFS) near Cham railway station in Canton Zug. Zug police were alerted shortly after 10am and found the...
On the evening of Sunday 1 November 2026, a fire was reported in one unit of the Boulenouar wind farm in the Dakhlet Nouadhibou region, in the hinterland of Nouadhibou, Mauritania. The source places the fire at an installation in the Souweissiya area near the...
On Sunday afternoon, 1 November 2026, a large-scale power cut affected the south of the city of Salzburg and the northern Tennengau area of Austria. According to Salzburg AG, the outage originated from a transformer that caught fire at the Elsbethen...
Drone strikes in the days before and including Sunday, 1 November 2026 (the source gives relative days, so exact dates are inferred), hit electricity facilities in army-held areas of Sudan. The government and the rights group Emergency Lawyers blamed the...
Between 30 October and 2 November 2026, drone attacks were reported to have struck four power substations in Sudan's Northern, River Nile and Kassala states. Satellite imagery compared before and after the attacks showed dark spots at all four sites, which...
In the early hours of Wednesday 28 October 2026, drones reportedly attacked the city of Al Manaqil in Sudan's Al Jazirah State. Footage circulating online showed a fire at a fuel depot. Misbar compared Sentinel-2 satellite images from 23 and 28 October and...