NY Sidewalk Vault Explosion

[dkidd]

This is wild

Shocking Video Shows Man Survive Sidewalk Explosion in Queens

An underground explosion engulfed a Queens sidewalk, sending flames shooting several feet into the air and injuring a man who happened to be standing on the grate at the precise wrong moment, surveillance video exclusively obtained by NBC New York showed.

www.nbcnewyork.com

 

[hbiss]

Ahh, it's NYC. You get used to that kind of stuff.

-Hal

 

[petersonra]

Ahh, it's NYC. You get used to that kind of stuff.

-Hal

Barry West was walking along Farmers Boulevard in St. Albans around 5:30 p.m. on July 22 to pay a cellphone bill

Must be a delinquent phone bill. Here it is tough to get a cell phone w/o autopay.

 

[mbrooke]

My understanding is that network transformers are not fused and rely on the feeder breaker to trip out.

 

[don_resqcapt19]

When you have networked secondary systems with over 200kA of available fault current in some areas of NYC, you can get some big explosions.