Thanks to My Green Lake‘s industrious working of the Twitter, we learned that there was a pole fire in Woodland Park tonight.
Who ever heard of a pole fire? Well, here’s a picture snapped by Joe Sunga. Apparently, an electric line snapped, hit the pole with sparks and ba-boom! A good old fashioned pole fire.
Doesn’t sound like anyone was hurt, but a kickball game was cancelled, for which we offer our deep condolences.
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Well, as it turns out, they’re not all that uncommon, although I’ve not seen one as spectacular as that. We had a minor blowout on 47th earlier this summer, when a spate of rain apparently drove a bunch of crud into a transformer and — poof! no power for several blocks, though it was fixed in less than 45 minutes. And a few years back, a pole at 48th and Interlake caught fire. Somehow, City Light was able to bring in and install a new pole cut off the business end of the old one and tie it to the new pole in almost no time.