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...
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Solar panels on the roof of an apartment complex in Tucson, Arizona caught fire on the afternoon of Monday 9 November 2026. Witnesses reported flames from the roof of a second-storey unit, and crews arriving within four minutes saw smoke escaping from the...
A viewer submitted dashcam video to KSAT Connect, the submission platform of the San Antonio news outlet KSAT, which appears to show a transformer exploding on the Northwest Side of San Antonio, Texas. The footage shows the road lit up as drivers passed. The...
A wind turbine at a wind farm in the municipal area of San Juan del Olmo, Ávila province, Castilla y León, caught fire on 10 November 2026. The regional 112 emergency service received the first alert at 16:22, after as many as 20 calls reported the fire at...
On Monday evening, 9 November 2026, a fire broke out at about 9 pm at a factory in Hiriyakheri village, in the Ramganjmandi area of Kota district, Rajasthan. The factory makes children's snacks. According to Dainik Bhaskar, the fire quickly grew severe. It...
According to a report by Haberler.com published on 8 November 2026, an electrical transformer exploded repeatedly in the Şişli district of Istanbul, Turkey. The report gives no exact time of the incident and does not state whether it occurred on that day. The...
A fire broke out at an electrical substation in the canton of Salinas, in Santa Elena province, on Monday 9 November 2026. The fire was near the vehicle inspection yard. Smoke was visible from the site and alarmed people in the surrounding area. Witnesses...
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...
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...