Meet one of Nintendo's original Power Line counselors Meet one of Nintendo's original Power Line counselors This segment originally aired Nov.
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" Movement 2 (Agitato) : "That's gonna hit the power line!
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A power line had sent 291,473 volts through his body.
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Do you think these power line inspectors get hazard pay?
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Power line strikes and illegal shootings commonly cause premature death.
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Some sources say power line inspections will begin Thursday afternoon.
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After capturing the power line and using it to move across a boundary where a music shift happens, the sound effect of traveling along that same power line audibly changes to match the new tune.
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There's not a power line, road, or building anywhere in sight.
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Johnson authors the Power Line blog and has written about Omar.
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In Jenison, Michigan, a trampoline was tossed onto a power line.
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It's a longer time to blow dangerous, power line-snapping winds.
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Think of it like a drone, only plugged into a power line.
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Well, it could if a major power line connected the two states.
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Her mother managed a Walmart and her father repaired power-line transformers.
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"I figured that was the balloon hitting the power line," she said.
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The fatal injury rate for power-line workers was approximately 2000 per 255,2100.
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They beheaded two sawmill workers and toppled a power line in the area.
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You might look at an overhead power line and see an engineering problem.
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That's got to be the most metal way to clean a power line.
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But what if something like a power line looms in a balloon's path?
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I was sitting there telling them about insulators on an electric power line.
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Our store was unaffected as it is on a completely separate power line.
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One was safely rescued but the other got stuck on the power line.
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Whitefish Energy workers work on power line towers in Barceloneta, Puerto Rico, on Oct.
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Here again, an overheated power line drooped into tree branches, this time in Ohio.
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A toppled tree leans onto a power line after an overnight storm Monday, Oct.
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With each new gust, a power line, dislodged by the storm, smacked the roof.
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A faulty power line from California's largest utility, Pacific Gas & Electric, ignited the blaze.
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To get there, you follow a power line along a series of unmarked roads.
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Officials believe the blaze was ignited by a tree branch hitting a power line.
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Unlike some competitors, it doesn't have a battery — so you'll need that aforementioned power line.
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Whitefish Energy workers work on power line towers in Barceloneta, Puerto Rico, on Oct. 15.
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SIGAR inspected several of the power line towers and discovered a host of construction problems.
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Whitefish Energy workers work on power line towers in Barceloneta, Puerto Rico, Sunday, Oct. 15.
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Barasa said another power line between Kenya and Ethiopia should be completed in early 2018.
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Her body was found near a power line behind a high school two days later.
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Crimea already has a power line linking to Russia's Taman peninsula across the Black Sea.
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In Georgia, a man was killed after coming into contact with a downed power line.
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Smoke rises next to a power line tower after the Camp fire in Big Bend, California.
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If a power line is hit, (there is) no water, no electricity, no waste water treatment.
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Those jobs include makeup artists, construction and building inspectors and electrical power-line installers and repairers.
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A power line on top of a house in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Nov. 7.
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Early in the film, one of Cheney's fellow power line repairmen falls and shatters his leg.
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A man was electrocuted in Atlanta after making contact with a downed power line, police said.
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One hit a power line and temporarily blacked out the nuclear-weapons plant at Hanford, Washington.
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In April, a bulldozer hit a power line, which knocked out electricity for the entire island.
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Between the lines: While covered regularly in trade publications, the power line didn't garner many national headlines.
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"Under an environmental standpoint, the worst decision was not approving construction of that power line," Salles said.
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Also, we almost crashed into a power line flying around in a hot air balloon in Cappadocia.
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It's asking the bureau to let it run three pipelines and a power line across federal land.
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In one case, fire officials said, PG&E failed to remove a tree near a power line.
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"They started a brand new phone line," said David Young, one of Nintendo's original Power Line counselors.
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A power line fails and service stops again, sending thousands of riders shuttling between rage and despair.
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But one of the pilots ended up dangling from a power line when his parachute became tangled.
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Debris was strewn over several blocks, and pieces could be seen hanging from a tree and power line.
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In April, one blackout wiped out power to 840,000 people when a tree fell on a power line.
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Enel has proposed instead continuing to use the existing power line carrier as it is reliable and cheap.
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Insteon came out in the early 2000s and offered redundant networking through RF signals and power line networking.
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One of the tanks struck a high-power line and exploded in flames early on Saturday, police said.
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A Mylar balloon hit the power line and knocked everything out—no power, no television, but we played.
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The bees were more aggressive and less able to learn even after short exposure to the power line.
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Power line workers here must be skilled, though Mr. Hartigan said skill is only one of the requirements.
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A giant oak tree had fallen through the corner of his parents' roof and snapped a power line.
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" Movement 3 (Andante) : [bounce house flies into power line with satisfying thud] Movement 4 (Espressivo, forte): "Ohhhh shit!
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An electrical charge from a high-voltage power line, for example, can solidify sand with a telltale signature.
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Premise: A big, friendly bird tries to befriend a bunch of small, unfriendly birds on a power line.
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Eventually, that power line connects to the school at the center of town, the sole building with electricity.
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Witnesses told KATC that the plane hit a power line as it attempted to make an emergency landing.
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After de-energizing the power line, officials were able to rescue Koskovich, who was the aircraft's lone occupant.
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GIFs that predicted sounds (like the power line towers jumping rope above) were more likely to produce vEAR.
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A drone is shown lifting off as operates at a Georgia Power training complex during power line inspection demonstration.
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Tree and power line damage will be extensive, and could occur all the way into portions of North Carolina.
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Just as he hits the power line, though, he is briefly made visible — in the form of Brad Pitt.
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The boy was one of three aboard a catamaran sailboat that struck a power line during a Scout outing.
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I did everything right and I've tried multiple configurations in my home including power-line networking and multiple repeaters.
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Despite a new power line to the city, there is little electricity, leaving people reliant on expensive diesel generators.
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This has increased the likelihood of a power line, a barbecue grill, or an errant spark triggering an inferno.
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It is believed the fire was started when a PG&E power line came in contact with nearby trees.
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Here's what experts say PG&E should have done years ago, from better tree trimming to power-line upgrades.
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We arrive to find El Tepeyac in darkness; the only power line was recently blown down by a storm.
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A witness told reporters the craft struck a power line and emergency responders said the basket had caught fire.
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It fined the utility company $8.3 million in April for failing to properly clear vegetation around the power line.
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One line of inquiry, an investigator told us: Was the culprit an electrical problem like a fallen power line?
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A proposal in 2012 to build a power line to the city from a dam 60km away fell apart.
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Once the power line was de-energized, pilot Thomas Koskovich, 65, of Shakopee was rescued, the news release said.
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Investigators say the plane ran out of fuel, hit two trees and a power line, and then exploded into flames.
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Electrical power-line installer or repairer They install or repair cables or wires used in electrical power or distribution systems.
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PG&E equipment started the deadly 2018 Camp Fire, a state investigation found, after a power line touched nearby trees.
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What's more, this 700-mile-long power line was for something that ostensibly has a lot of support: renewable energy.
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Deliveries could include components for a 1,200-km (746 miles) high voltage power line between Inner Mongolia and Shandong province.
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Fire officials have said the Getty fire began when tree branches fell on an electrical power line during high winds.
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The fire was caused by a faulty power line owned by electricity provider Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E.)
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Sure, it's kind of cool to see what they can do to a dangly black thing on a power line.
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Just a few days ago, high winds knocked a tree onto a power line a few blocks from my house.
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Skyqraft, a Swedish startup using AI and drones for electricity power-line inspection, has picked up $505,000 in early backing.
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The main power line to the BLU-97 assembly building had been cut off; emergency lights provided the only illumination.
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All you need then is a spark, which could come from a power line failure, a cigarette, or a firecracker.
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But then I counted: The power line is jumping at 52 beats per minute; my heart is going at 72.
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Whitefish Energy Holdings workers repair power line towers after the passing of Hurricane Maria in Manatí, Puerto Rico, on Oct. 31.
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According to USA Today, the two birds were mating on a pole attached to a power line when literal sparks flew.
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Construction of the power line needs to be complete by December 2019 if Belo Monte is to operate at full capacity.
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That photograph features a power line dividing the sky between a tree in the foreground and clouds floating in the background.
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" Protester Laila Muhammadi said: "Whatever the government offers is unacceptable until they decide to change the route of the power line.
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"The existing power line needs to be out of commission for periods while the new one is being built," it said.
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But he almost died a year ago when he grabbed a live power line, and he said he wanted a change.
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Of course, even a fully upgraded, vegetation-cleared power line can occasionally collide with a dry branch, especially amid powerful winds.
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Even after being shot by a sedative arrow in the back, he desperately tried to escape, dangling from a power line.
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The facility will be linked to a 350-mile dedicated power line that will send the wind farm's electricity to Tulsa.
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The NES Power Line was originally intended to help people with technical difficulties connecting their game systems and other customer support.
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Here's a real mindbender: Humans didn't invent the power line — "electroactive" bacteria did, sending out hairlike growths to channel electrical impulses.
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According to a Business Insider Power Line report, the coronavirus pandemic has driven down demand for solar panels and electric cars.
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The outages, intended to prevent a situation in which a power line sparks a fire, began on Tuesday night at midnight.
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It is believed that the Camp Fire was started when a PG&E power line came in contact with nearby trees.
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According to Wallace, PREPA asked to install a new power line that would have required a lengthier process and special permission.
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That's when a power line known as the Cambalache Manatee line failed, again, plunging San Juan and other cities into darkness.
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During the night, rescue teams and electricians extended a power line 1 kilometer (half a mile) and communication lines into the cave.
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Tall flames rise near a high voltage power line tower at the Blue Cut Fire near Wrightwood, California on August 17, 2016.
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The blackout came just six days after authorities said about 840,423 people lost power when a tree fell on a power line.
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That helps him use solar power at night or when a power line goes out—all too often, in storm-prone Florida.
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They can be seen stringing power lines between poles or towers, fixing defective transformers, and scaling power line poles to make repairs.
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The stoppage came just two weeks after a power line repaired by Whitefish blew, plunging most of the island back into darkness.
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Puerto Rico's islandwide blackout, which is now over, was caused by a contractor's bulldozer accidentally hitting a power line, NBC News reports.
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Power line replacements will not cause risk to the electricity supply of the energy-hungry data centers of the region, it added.
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And that was before a storm knocked down a tree and power line outside Mr. Christie's house, starting a fire beside it.
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The so-called TUTAP power line is backed by the Asian Development Bank with involvement of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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The blackout came less than a week after a tree fell on a crucial power line, knocking out power to 840,000 people.
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The rest are mostly fires started by lightning, or other acts of Mother Nature such as wind taking down a power line.
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Droughts also contribute to the danger, since dry timber is more likely to fall on a power line and spark a fire.
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The massive influx of snow killed one person after a tree knocked down a power line, Sobyanin said on social media on Sunday.
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The fire department came over but they wouldn't run a power line from down the street or provide a temporary generator, Lillard said.
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On Friday, the company reported to regulators a second power-line outage that it experienced in Butte County on the morning of Nov.
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The outage comes less than a week after a tree fell on a power line and cut the electricity supply for 840,000 people.
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They were hoisted to surface on Friday after temporary power line pylons were installed by Sibanye-Stillwater and Eskom, the country's power utility.
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The incident was upgraded to an "alert" after the fire damaged a power line that resulted in an equipment malfunction, Duke Energy said.
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He cited the example of an un-built power line northern Brazil that would connect the state of Roraima to the national grid.
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In the beginning she mainly just tells him what to do, like investigate a downed power line or deal with troublesome drunk teens.
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I couldn't email my editor final changes on The Casual Vacancy from South Africa, because an aardvark had chewed through a power line.
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Trump threatens Republicans that 28503 will be tough for them if they do not toe his hard-power line in major policy areas.
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She turned south, toward Perryton, Texas, but another fire, later called the Perryton Fire—also caused by power-line sparks—ruled that out.
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Winds during these events exceeded hurricane force (75 mph), but the power line finding likely clears the way for lawsuits against PG&E.
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San Diego Gas and Electric has also focused on strategic blackouts during high wind events to reduce the risk of power line ignitions.
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The progress officials have made is tenuous: A power line there briefly failed on Thursday, leaving many cities, including the capital, without power.
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Weekly, he headed into the bush to run in soft sand, using a power line overhead to keep him from straying off course.
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The 2850-year-old man was electrocuted after a power line fell Friday afternoon in Van Nuys, Los Angeles police Officer Drake Madison said.
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"It's only funny because he didn't get hurt, but David Ross got hit by a power line," he says of the Cubs' venerable catcher.
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Just last week, half of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority's (PREPA) customers lost power when a tree fell across a major power line.
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That said, maybe a drone that spews fire is just as dangerous as having to climb up to a power line to fetch garbage.
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For its part, DJI has a small line of bigger, pricier drones that it markets for things like power line inspection and crop spraying.
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Caldwell County Judge Ken Schawe said it looks like the balloon collided with a power line before catching fire and crashing to the ground.
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From Corpus Christi to Houston, Texas (CNN)It begins with a couple of shingles in the road, a power line down here or there.
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"Given the way all this started, it's certainly consistent with what you'd expect to see when there is a power line ignition," said Singleton.
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According to media reports, a 2015 investigation found that a power line operated by the utility ignited fires that burned more than 70,000 acres.
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"The economic situation in Venezuela is precarious, and it affects power line maintenance," Fábio Lopes Alves, electricity secretary at Brazil's Energy Ministry, told Reuters.
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Southern California Edison said Friday that it re-energized a 16,000-volt power line 13 minutes before the fire erupted in the same area.
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The utility tweeted an image it said was of the tree that fell across a power line near the southeast mountain town of Cayey.
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The same company was responsible for an outage that affected 870,000 customers after a tree fell on a power line last week, PREPA said.
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The same company was responsible for an outage that affected 870,0003 customers after a tree fell on a power line last week, PREPA said.
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And poor power-line maintenance by the main utility in Northern California, the Pacific Gas & Electric Company, has been blamed for some past wildfires.
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"They want 62 feet, basically a ball around the power line," Mr. Dudley said, referring to the required distance between trees and utility equipment.
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The company has said it's "probable" its equipment started the 2018 Camp Fire, California's deadliest and most destructive, when a power line touched nearby trees.
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Neighbors complained that the ground would shake, and they said Lyttle once killed the power for the entire neighborhood by striking an underground power line.
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Last year, the commission fined PG&E $8.3 million for failing to maintain a power line that ignited a fire in Amador County in 2015.
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Other aerial business service companies perform pipeline and power line surveying for the energy industry, insurance assessment and 3D dimensional imaging for the construction industry.
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And federal regulators just approved a new long-distance power line that will carry electricity from wind farms in Texas and Oklahoma to the Southeast.
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Samson and Harrigan agree that it would be preferable for the company to bury the entire power line—an option Eversource says is cost-prohibitive.
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The Hazaras commonly face discrimination; they had gathered to protest against the planned rerouting of a power line around the Hazara-dominated province of Bamiyan.
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It struck a demonstration by Afghanistan's Hazara ethnic community, who were marching for a major regional power line to be routed through their home province.
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The Wednesday outage was caused by a bulldozer hitting a power line while trying to remove a collapsed transmission tower, according to El Nuevo Día.
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It is not a venomous rattlesnake, a downed power line or a horrifying object cursed by the ghosts of Howard Carter, King Tut and 1922.
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By doing so manually, without the protective relay fail-safes, they could have triggered a dangerous overload of current in a transformer or power line.
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He picked it up, and instantly he was at home again, supervising repairs on a power line that would probably be blown up again tomorrow.
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The company has said it's "probable" its equipment started the 2018 Camp Fire, California's deadliest and most destructive, when a power line touched nearby trees.
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Earlier this week I wrote about a new long-distance power line in the US and the long, slow path it took to win approval.
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Two NETs in another neighborhood not too far away are seriously injured when they fail to see a downed power line while moving broken branches.
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Irene Muloni, Uganda's energy minister, told Reuters the two countries had signed a memorandum of understanding this month to jointly construct a high-voltage power line.
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The National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the crash scene, but Hastings said he believed his father's plane had hit a power line, causing the crash.
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The bin trapped a concentrated amount of oxygen which, when combined with the spark from the power line and the dust particles, causes a rapid combustion.
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The animals were mating atop a power line when the female bird spread her lings causing to parallel lines to connect and literal sparks to fly.
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A failure of one PG&E power line in November caused the Camp Fire, which killed more than 80 people and destroyed the town of Paradise.
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The rotating column of fire, induced by intense rising heat and turbulent winds, caused power line towers to collapse, uprooted several trees and removed tree bark.
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The rotating column of fire, induced by intense rising heat and turbulent winds, caused power line towers to collapse, uprooted several trees and removed tree bark
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Military officials said the downed aircraft touched a power line before the crash but have said the exact circumstances of the mishap were still being examined.
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For example, the Avian Power Line Interaction Committee has focused for many years on developing ways to reduce the number of birds killed by power lines.
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Whitefish Energy has two full-time employees, and its largest government contract prior to this was a $1.3 million job fixing 4.8 miles of power line.
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The government plans to award a new license early next year for the construction of a power line to connect Roraima to the grid, Alves said.
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These secure wireless networks enable connectivity of fire monitoring cameras, weather sensors and other control devices that can shut off power to a falling power line.
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Mr. Anschutz is also planning to build the TransWest Express, a 730-mile power line that would take Wyoming's wind energy to Las Vegas and California.
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The power line failure in southern Puerto Rico was the latest in a string of operational and political headaches for the bankrupt, storm-ravaged power utility.
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As you can see, it's spewing jets of fire at a power line, systematically disintegrating what appears to be some kind of gauzy net of debris.
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Newsom has proposed the $21 billion fund to compensate wildfire victims in blazes tied to utilities, such as when a downed power line sparks a blaze.
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They helped rebuild a fire-ravaged power line in mountainous Washington State and are in the process of supplying a transformer to a Montana electric cooperative.
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The balloon hit a power line and plummeted in flames into a pasture near Lockhart, about 30 miles (50 km) south of the state capital Austin.
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Two works depict urban infrastructure: a monoprint of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, by Rachel Burgess, and a linocut of a power line, by Ondine Wolfe Crispin.
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The exact scenario California was trying to prevent has happened: A power line has sparked a dangerous wildfire near a densely populated area amid severe fire conditions.
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The electricity they generate (600 kilowatts at full capacity) is sent to the ground through a power line encased in a tether nearly half a kilometre long.
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The protesters were demanding a planned power line be rerouted through their poverty-stricken Bamyan province to ensure electricity in the relatively isolated area west of Kabul.
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Now, cut to 2013's Tomb Raider, where you can seamlessly go from ziplining down a power line to catching your fall by pickaxing onto a mountain.
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She marveled at a squirrel bounding across a power line a few feet from her -- animals she rarely saw in her urban neighborhood in Guatemala, she says.
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And just this week, we saw some of that progress frustratingly recede as a tree fell on a crucial power line, knocking out power to 840,000 people.
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In the United States, the Avian Power Line Interaction Committee, a nonprofit organization whose members include more than 50 utility companies, also works to reduce bird deaths.
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The company has previously said it's "probable" that its equipment started the 2018 Camp Fire, California's deadliest and most destructive, when a power line touched nearby trees.
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Authorities determined the fire was started by PG&E's power line, which was in poor repair and maintenance, that created a huge debt burden for PG&E.
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The jet of the future, however, needs much more electricity, which is why Diehl Aerospace's Power Line Communication concept has those cables doing double and even triple duty.
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The jet of the future, however, needs much more electricity, which is why Diehl Aerospace's Power Line Communication concept has those cables doing double and even triple duty.
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The power company tweeted that the electrical fault happened in the 50700 power line, which runs from Central Aguirre, in the south of the island, to power plants.
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The company, known as PG&E, says it's "probable" its equipment started the 2018 Camp fire, California's deadliest and most destructive, when a power line touched nearby trees.
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Our cisterns had fallen off the roof, security windows leaked with water, and a power line had to be borrowed from a neighbor, but we were so lucky.
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For most of the 231th century, power markets were simple: Generate it, send it over a power line, dump it into a building, charge a regulator-approved rate.
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It recently unveiled a new 158 km power line in Brazil to carry power produced from wind farms in the south of the country into the national grid.
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The man says the ride hit a power line 35 feet in the air while it was being raised, which caused an electrical overload in a nearby generator.
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Construction of the power line started in November 2015 and had been due to be completed by December last year, but the timeline once more shifted to September.
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McAllaster owns the only operational dairy farm directly in the path of the proposed power line, and he says the project represents an existential threat to his livelihood.
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A commercial building was destroyed in the fire, which started when a vehicle hit a utility pole and brought down a power line, but no homes were damaged.
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The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, known as PREPA, said a tree fell on a major power line, knocking out service to 22017,2300 customers, about half its clients.
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When Power Line counselors started receiving calls asking for strategic help on how to successfully advance through games, they set up a new line to accommodate those calls.
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I was a clerical worker at a utility company and the women saw that they weren't getting treated as well as the men at the power line department.
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And that's even before accounting for the strain on public services by encouraging and supporting sprawl where every mile of sewer, water, and power line serves fewer taxpayers.
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An electrical cause is certainly on the table, Mr. Engel said, from a power line that could have fallen in the wind, or some other malfunctioning electrical equipment.
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Nine elephants were electrocuted near a village in eastern Botswana this week after they came into contact with a fallen power line near a water source, officials said.
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A faulty power line owned by PG&E is the subject of an investigation into the blaze, known as the Camp Fire, about 90 miles north of Sacramento.
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The next on the power line today is President Miguel Díaz-Canel, who even became the No. 227 man to Raúl Castro after Fidel Castro died in 210.
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A second storm victim, a 55-year-old man, was electrocuted when a power line fell Friday in the Sherman Oaks area of Los Angeles, the fire department said.
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A second storm victim, a 55-year-old man, was electrocuted when a power line fell Friday in Sherman Oaks, west of downtown Los Angeles, the fire department said.
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Screenshot: WYMTWhen Kentucky electrician Chris Prater felt something in his eye after he cut down a tree from a power line, he thought maybe sawdust was causing the irritation.
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Tammy and Brian Bossard almost lost their 23-month-old daughter late Friday night when their family boat hit a power line and flipped over on Florida's Indian River.
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Timothy Coggins, 23, was found stabbed to death on October 9, 1983, near a high-tension power line in Sunny Side, a town about 30 miles south of Atlanta.
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"Power-line inspections most importantly are not environmentally friendly, very costly and unsafe with the use of helicopters and people," Skyqraft co-founder and CMO Sakina Turabali tells TechCrunch.
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In Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, a man died in a vehicle that police said was engulfed in flames, while a live power line was on the roadway near it.
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While police initially thought a downed power line was the source of a fire around Bernard's remains, subsequent inspection determined an accelerant had been used, leading investigators toward foul play.
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Their worst fears came true when Pope's body was found Wednesday night in a thickly-wooded power line easement in Wrigley, the Hickman County Sheriff's Office said in a release.
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Three times a year, PG&E spends a couple of days cutting back the branches of the native valley oaks that grow under the power line along my neighborhood's road.
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But the new model doesn't come with one of the most beloved features of the original: access to the Power Line players called when they got stuck in a game.
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It's the same reason squirrels can chill on a power line without being electrocuted: there's no difference in voltage along the wire, so the current doesn't flow through the squirrel.
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Before the proposal's publication, Qatar was already in talks with Israeli officials about building a new power line from Israel to Gaza, which the Gulf nation would help to fund.
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PG&E officials said every inch of power line would have to be inspected before resuming service, and on Tuesday officials warned that it could take up to five days.
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Individuals from society's periphery have long sought refuge in this part of the state, where cheap land far from the nearest power line or shopping center is easy to find.
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Saturday's protest over a multimillion dollar power line, which demonstrators wanted to re-route through two provinces with large Hazara populations, had become a touchstone for a wider sense of injustice.
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"When you say 'broadband' and 'power line' in the same sentence there is a tendency to yawn," AT&T chief strategy officer John Donovan acknowledged during a conference call with reporters.
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However, the initial chambers near the cave&aposs entrance are dry, and a power line was extended inside to provide light and ventilation and help the divers communicate with those outside.
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On Saturday, about 100 light-rail passengers were stranded in the cold and dark after a high-voltage power line tumbled on the tracks as an ice storm struck Portland, Oregon.
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In June, Hamas chief, Ismail Haniyeh said a new hospital, industrial zones and a new power line would be built in Gaza as part of a wide truce agreement with Israel.
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By contrast though, there are plenty of cases about the liability of electric and other companies when someone is injured by a power line, on the ground or in the air.
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America was "tantalizingly" close to building what would have amounted to a superhighway power line sending renewable energy across the country, but local opposition, government delay and utility disinterest killed it.
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The new storm will hit at a time when thousands of people are still without power in the region due to the tree and power line damage the last storm caused.
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The power line must cut across 120 kms (75 miles) of an indigenous reserve, home to the Waimiri-Atroari, who were nearly wiped out in the last century, complicating the process.
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PLN spokesman I Made Suprateka told Metro TV on Monday that overgrown trees had made contact with a high-voltage power line and started a fire that triggered the transmission failure.
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In fact, the only major threat to the grid has come from a supposedly reliable nuclear plant in eastern Massachusetts where a power line failure knocked the plant out of service.
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The verdict came almost 35 years after Coggins' mutilated and stabbed body was found near a high-tension power line in Sunny Side, a town about 35 miles south of Atlanta.
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For example, how would a car's visual processor distinguish between a pedestrian trying to hitch a ride and a police officer flagging you down because of a downed power line ahead?
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Mr. Davies, who explained that the swan had been killed when it flew into a power line near his home, received an official caution from the police but was not charged.
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In Franklin Lakes, N.J., on Thursday morning, a man drove around barricades and across a live power line that sparked a fire that incinerated his car, killing him, the police said.
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On Friday, the Department of Energy approved the Plains and Eastern Clean Line, a new high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) power line that will extend from western Oklahoma to western Tennessee.
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The company that operates the plant, Calpine, "de-energized" its local power line system before the fire started, Calpine vice president of external affairs Brett Kerr said in a statement to CNN.
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That case suggests that power line companies have no duty to warn balloonists of a known danger of electricity when the presence of the power lines was an open and obvious danger.
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The 266-mile (428km), 400-kilovolt power line is critical for the Lake Turkana Wind Power project, to carry electricity from Loiyangalani in the north to Suswa in the centre of Kenya.
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She blamed faulty transmission circuits on Ungaran to Pemalang power line in Central Java for causing voltage drops that hit power networks in Jakarta as well as West Java and Banten provinces.
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There's a lot of money at stake, and the power line has enthusiastic support from Governor Chris Sununu (R), a position opponents attribute to the $18,000 he has received from Eversource executives.
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So if you're in one of those aforementioned setups where a dedicated power line is a no go, you won't need to drag your whole doorbell inside just to keep it juiced.
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In it, Lopes uses a conveniently placed power line that appears in Toastarena Town to demonstrate the way that sounds in the game can harmonize with the music playing in the background.
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Dogs, especially rescue dogs on the run, will frequently go into "survival mode" — they will hide at night or follow power line corridors and greenways — making it far harder to identify them.
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Power-line installers and repairers have one of the 10 most dangerous occupations in America, with significant rates of both fatal and non-fatal injuries, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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It took a decade to devise a vegetation-management plan after, in 2003, an Ohio power line sagged into branches and cut power to 50m north-easterners at a cost of roughly $6bn.
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California utility PG&E, facing investor concerns over its possible role in the deadly Camp Fire in Northern California, has reported another power-line outage that it experienced on the morning of Nov.
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To the court, requiring a utility to warn balloonists, insulate the power line and provide circuit breakers at all points on the line would impose an unreasonable, unachievable duty upon the entire system.
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"We think this product is eventually one that could actually serve anywhere near a power line," said Marachel Knight, AT&T's senior vice president of wireless network architecture and design, in an interview.
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The claim that Omar's second husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, is her brother was first made by the US conservative blog Power Line in 2016, citing claims made on a Somali political forum.
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It also includes prescribed burns in the colder seasons and clearing power line corridors of hazardous trees and excessive brush so if a wire or tree does fall it's less likely to ignite.
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She blamed faulty transmission circuits on the Ungaran to Pemalang power line in Central Java for causing voltage drops that hit power networks in Jakarta as well as West Java and Banten provinces.
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But doing so is expensive, costing five to ten times more per mile of line, and if an underground power line does get damaged — say, from corrosive saltwater flooding — repairs can take longer.
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New tools like outboards and snowmobiles improved hunters' productivity but required cash; Oomittuk had one of the village's last dog teams, until a power line blew down and landed in his dog yard.
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The fire, which started Wednesday evening in the community of Bay Point, apparently was caused by an electrical power line that fell, according to Chevron Pipe Line Company, which operates the threatened pipeline.
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Saturday's protest over the route of a multimillion dollar power line, which demonstrators wanted to re-route through two provinces with large Hazara populations, had become a touchstone for a wider sense of injustice.
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In a preliminary report to the California Utilities Commission, PG&E stated that a survey of the power line from the air in the afternoon found damage to a transmission tower along the line.
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PG&E's role in catastrophic fires The company has previously said it's "probable" that its equipment started the 2018 Camp Fire — California's deadliest and most destructive blaze — when a power line touched nearby trees.
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Mirziyoyev and Ghani also signed 20 other deals, including an agreement on the construction of a new electric power line and deals for supplies of Uzbek agricultural products, medicines and other goods to Afghanistan.
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Some other styles that caught our eye are the Power Line Skirt, with its front side vent and invisible pockets, and the Squared Away Dress, a modern geometric take on the classic black dress.
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A worker suffered burns on a hand and foot when the machine he was operating touched the tree that came down on the power line, said Jesus Martinez, director of Emergency Management for Cayey.
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A commotion erupted when a group of burly men burst through the door, moving through the hospital corridors as one, huddled around a small brown object: a monkey electrocuted while climbing a power line.
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It is my hope that the next pipeline, much like the next windmill, solar farm, or power line, will be decided impartially without resorting to political theater that drags on for nine long years.
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San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz tweeted Thursday that a power line repaired by Montana contracting firm Whitefish Energy had failed, causing outages for hundreds of thousands of the island's nearly 2 million inhabitants.
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The gadget, which was outlined in a paper published in a recent edition of the IEEE Sensors Journal, offers a simple installation process that involves securing it over a power line with a zip tie.
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A push for C$13 billion ($898 million) power line extension north from Manitoba province has yielded few results, but the federal government's approval of a two-year study in February is raising some hopes.
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The massive fireball seen in the video was the result of fuel igniting after the plane clipped a power line, followed by a street light, causing the inferno to rain down on the street below.
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A "dig once" ordinance passed in 2014 requires the city to lay its own fiber any time a road is dug up, whether its for a street repair, water main break, or power line renovations.
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You want to make sure that you don't hit a power line, that if something goes wrong with one of your motors, that you can land elegantly instead of just crashing out of the sky.
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COGAT said it has suggested permanent solutions, such as connecting Gaza directly to gas lines or a major power line that would allow the transfer of 100 additional megawatts of power into the coastal enclave.
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To get it to Los Angeles, the New York Times reported in 1936, "a construction army of more than 1,000" toiled for years to create a power line across 270 miles of mountains and desert.
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The additional capacity at Nyhamna means the need for a reliable power supply is increasing but long-standing discussions to upgrade the power line between Gassco and state grid Statnett have failed to produced results.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria's top administrative court has ruled that a disputed high-voltage power line project in Salzburg province would not be environmentally damaging, the court said on Tuesday, clearing the way for its construction.
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And while infrastructure failures like the power line damage we saw in Puerto Rico this week can shut off electricity to massive cities, they are often repaired quickly, so their overall impact can be contained.
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"It's not regulated and it should not be allowed," said Gary Robb, an aviation lawyer who represented a cameraman who was killed when an open-sided helicopter hit a power line in Iowa in 2006.
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Thousands of people were evacuated from Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands in North Carolina's Outer Banks after a construction mishap damaged the area's main power line, plunging the islands into darkness and shutting off air-conditioners.
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The drone won't descend if a human steps into the area it's planning to land in, he said, and it will also use computer-vision to spot wires so it doesn't accidentally intersect a power line.
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According to a local ABC station, officials said the blaze, which caused Newsom to declare a state of emergency over the weekend, started after a tree branch knocked into a power line due to high winds.
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In terms of future U.S. investments, Perry said the company was waiting for Trump's infrastructure plan, which could include some multi-state power line projects that Fortis would be well positioned to bid on through ITC.
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Of some 5,900 km (3,700 miles) of additional grids and power line improvements planned to accommodate the increase in renewable installations in the next decade, only 600 km have been approved and just 150 km implemented.
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At a forum in Sao Paulo, Bolsonaro said he hoped to begin construction on a power line connecting the state of Roraima, which borders Venezuela, with the city of Manaus by the end of the year.
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There were two plane crashes here in 2011, one of them fatal: A Cessna pilot was killed when his plane hit a power line as he tried to land in high winds on Matinicus's dirt airstrip.
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KABUL (Reuters) - Thousands of members of Afghanistan's Hazara minority are expected to join protests in Kabul on Monday over a multi-million-dollar power line development that risks becoming a major political battleground for the government.
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The plane hit a power line while trying to make an emergency landing and injured several bystanders, including one who is in critical condition, and two employees of a nearby United States Postal Service (USPS) office.
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Graphic television footage from the site of the attack showed many dead bodies lying on the bloodied road, close to where thousands of Hazara had been demonstrating over the route of a planned multimillion dollar power line.
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Thousands of members of Afghanistan's Shia Hazara minority were marching in Kabul's Deh Mazang square protesting the location of a new power line, which they said bypasses areas needing electricity, when an explosion ripped through the crowd.
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The big picture: The book is part biography of entrepreneur Michael Skelly — whose now-shuttered firm tried to build the power line — part historical record on electricity, and part lesson in trying big things against myriad obstacles.
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"Right now, the main focus is going to be on debris removal so that power line trucks and repair crews can access the areas that are without power," Mr. Deal said at the State Capitol in Atlanta.
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At a hearing on Tuesday in Federal District Court in San Francisco, PG&E escaped a threatened court-ordered overhaul of its power-line maintenance efforts, which the utility previously estimated could cost up to $150 billion.
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Building on the success of recent airport and power line auctions , President Michel Temer's government is hoping to add capacity at ports exporting commodities from sugar and coffee to soy at some of the world's lowest prices.
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The attack attributed to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria targeted a peaceful protest of Afghanistan's mainly Shiite Hazaras minority, who were asking the government to put a power line in provinces with large Hazara populations.
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U.S. safety investigators in central Texas began gathering evidence on Sunday into what caused the crash of a hot air balloon that killed 16 people after it hit a power line and plummeted to the ground in flames.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's government expects environmental regulator Ibama to grant preliminary approval to Chinese utility State Grid in the second half of February for another power line in the Amazon forest, two government sources told Reuters on Tuesday.
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PG&E told the California Public Utilities Commission that a worker responded to a fire in Lafayette late Sunday afternoon and was told firefighters believed contact between a power line and a communication line may have caused it.
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The X10 system, an earlier, more elaborate form of home automation that relied on remote controls and a power-line-based communication protocol, is more likely to earn the claim of being the first mainstream home automation technology.
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Graphic television footage from the site of the attack showed many dead bodies lying on the bloodied road, close to where thousands of Hazara had been demonstrating against the route of a planned multi-million-dollar power line.
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Across the Pacific, however, another tragic accident occurred when the 51-year-old Masaki Nakamura was electrocuted by a 65,000-volt power line that touched the crane he was using to take the umbrellas out of the ground.
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He did not say when construction of the two industrial zones and the hospital would start, but he noted that funds from Qatar would be used to purchase a new power line from Israel and create new jobs.
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After initial listens I can say that "Hammered Down" snaps like a downed electrical power line, the guitar solo in "Flowers of Friendship" is tops and "Pig Fucker" will no doubt result in brutal chaos when performed live.
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On the other occasion he did an aerial survey of a power line corridor, which was pending before the Department, while traveling back from meetings in southern Virginia in order to get to a meeting with the Vice President.
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A power line that connects it to a smaller dam passes through a government-controlled area, sending electricity to the station that provides drinking water to the city of Aleppo, said Mohammed Sheikho, the head of the mechanical department.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A power line failure in southern Puerto Rico cut electricity to almost all 3.4 million residents on Wednesday, the latest in a string of operational and political headaches for the U.S. territory's bankrupt, storm-ravaged power utility.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - All 13 Turkish soldiers on board a Cougar military helicopter were killed when it crashed after getting caught in a high-voltage power line in the Senoba district of Turkey's southeastern Sirnak province, the army said on Wednesday.
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Image 2 of 2 CAIN ALTO, Puerto Rico – After months of darkness and stifling heat, Noe Pagan was overjoyed when power-line workers arrived to restore electricity to his home deep in the lush green mountains of western Puerto Rico.
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Sayed's cousin was one of four relatives he lost on Saturday when suicide bombers set off twin blasts at a demonstration by members of the mainly Shi'ite Hazara community who were protesting against the planned route of a power line.
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The product is designed to cook foods over a longer period of time at low temperatures and the switches connect to only 1 side of the power line voltage, so there is never a high voltage applied directly across our switches.
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AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - An 11-year-old Boy Scout died on Monday from injuries suffered aboard a sailboat that hit an overhead power line and killed two other boys on an east Texas lake over the weekend, a state official said.
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"I congratulate all of you on the completion of building this energy bridge which has tied Crimea to Russia," Putin said in a video link from his Black Sea residence in Sochi, Russia, addressing workers and engineers on the power line.
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SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - U.S. safety investigators in central Texas began gathering evidence on Sunday into what caused the crash of a hot air balloon that killed 16 people after it hit a power line and plummeted to the ground in flames.
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Weakened Canadian environmental regulations, the construction of a massive new power line and at least ten large-scale mines undergoing advanced exploration or development is turning this wild, rugged region of Canada into one of the world's largest mining districts.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh said on Thursday that two industrial zones, a new power line and a hospital would be built for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as part of truce understandings between his Islamist group and Israel.
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It could take as many as five days to restore power after the danger has passed because every inch of power line must be checked to make sure it isn't damaged or in danger of sparking a blaze, PG&E said.
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PG&E repeatedly failed to properly maintain a power line built nearly a century ago even though it cuts through a heavily wooded and mountainous area that experiences strong winds, a 227-page report by the California Public Utilities Commission concluded.
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Two Belgian fighter pilots were forced to eject from their aircraft on Thursday, and while both are in "good health" now, one was left dangling from a power line for two hours after his parachute got tangled up in the cords.
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"On the other occasion he did an aerial survey of a power line corridor, which was pending before the Department, while traveling back from meetings in southern Virginia in order to get to a meeting with the Vice President," she continued.
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Related: More than 100 Islamic State fighters reported killed in Afghanistan The attack targeted Afghanistan's Shiite Hazaras, a Muslim minority group who had gathered in thousands in Deh Mazang square to protest against a new power line which circumvented their communities.
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I'm not here for a future where I have to look up into the sky and see a glitched-out Amazon delivery drone careening toward a power line, hoping that a massive bird of prey is up to the task that day.
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The justices in a unanimous 9-0 ruling reversed the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' dismissal of a lawsuit by a fisherman whose boat collided with a downed power line in the Tennessee River that TVA employees were attempting to raise.
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"Given the prolonged period during which the wind event will unfold, and the large number of power line miles that will need to be inspected before restoration, customers are being asked to prepare for an extended outage," PG&E said in a release.
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The balloon, flown by Heart of Texas Hot Air Balloon Rides chief pilot and owner Alfred "Skip" Nichols, hit a power line and plummeted in flames into a pasture near Lockhart, about 30 miles (50 km) south of the state capital Austin.
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KABUL, May 16 (Reuters) - Stacked-up shipping containers blocked the streets leading to Kabul's government and diplomatic area on Monday as Afghan authorities prepared for a rally by thousands of members of the Hazara minority over a multi-million dollar power line project.
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The vast distance between the two states provides a different Anschutz-owned firm with another big opportunity: a $21.5 billion project building transmission lines to deliver the power - one of a dozen similar power-line projects by other companies across the West.
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The Pessamit oppose the power line because they say it will endanger their ancestral home, while the Yale activists believe that their university could pull the plug on the project by denying Eversource access to the swath of land under Wagner's management.
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Even if you don't mind the visual landscape damage, wind turbines cast strobe shadows, create variable levels of noise, cause migratory bird damage, are constructed from metals mined from the earth, and transmit electricity across major power-line corridors to urban areas.
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American Electric Power Co Inc is asking utility regulators in Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma to approve plans to build the power line, which will serve customers of its Public Service Company of Oklahoma and Southwestern Electric Power Company regulated utility units.
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SAN ANTONIO, July 31 (Reuters) - U.S. safety officials arrived in Texas on Sunday to probe the crash of a hot air balloon that killed 16 people, amid reports that it hit a power line and caught fire before plummeting to the ground.
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Leafing through a bound folio of maps, photographs and documents from the outpost's early years, Mr. Buaron pointed out how the state helped provide its infrastructure: a high-voltage power line, Housing Ministry plans to prepare 40 plots for permanent homes, a road.
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SAN JUAN, P.R. — A main power line that serves the northern half of Puerto Rico failed Thursday, knocking out electricity to seven cities that had only recently regained service and dealing a major setback to the island's desperate efforts to regain normality.
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When the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 was signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a power line was run down the road to his and his neighbors' properties, and family lore has it that was the day they all became lifetime Democrats.
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By a wide margin, the readers' choice was a showy image from Madras, India, depicting a metered main power line tapped by "multiple bare, unterminated wires," all loosely hung from a wood board that already bore the scorch marks of a fire.
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The National Transportation Safety Board said at a news conference on Monday the plane had problems before it ran out of fuel, hit two trees and a power line, and exploded into flames near Detroit&aposs Coleman A. Young Municipal Airport around 8 p.m.
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Private company Lake Turkana Wind is building Kenya's biggest wind power scheme at Lake Turkana which is expected to start producing some power in September and will be able to start sending power to the grid once the power line is ready in December.
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Local police and fire departments responded on Thursday to a brush fire near a power line in Tyngsboro, about 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Boston and found an unspecific number of devices that resembled pipe bombs near transmission lines operated by National Grid.
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Eversource Energy, the utility company that provides electric power to wide swaths of New England, says it has a solution: The Northern Pass project, a proposed hydroelectric 192-mile-long power line that would begin in Des Cantons in Quebec and snake through New Hampshire.
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Whether it's a power line tower on top of Mount Everest dwarfed by a massive spherical artifact, or a silver fork plunged into a mysterious blob of glowing goo, each 3D snapshot makes you wonder what's going on at the edges of the frame.
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In the Sierra foothill town of Oakhurst one recent afternoon, a dying tree was taken down near a PG&E power line by what looked like an industrial version of the mechanical claw in games in which players fish stuffed animals out of glass tanks.
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But Freddyson Martínez, vice president of a power workers' union, told The Associated Press that while the electric grid has improved in some areas, he worries about a lack of power line workers and post-Maria patches which feature lines affixed to palm trees.
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"Given the prolonged period during which the wind event will unfold, and the large number of power line miles that will need to be inspected before restoration, customers are being asked to prepare for an extended outage," PG&E said in a news release.
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GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A Qatari technical delegation held talks in Israel and the Gaza Strip this week about helping pay for a proposed new power line between them, officials on both sides said on Tuesday, marking a potential expansion of Doha's aid efforts for Palestinians.
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Image 2 of 2 MAE SAI, Thailand – Electricians are extending a power line into a flooded cave in northern Thailand to help the search and rescue efforts for 12 boys and their soccer coach stranded three nights in the sprawling caverns and cut off by rising water.
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NAIROBI, June 28 (Reuters) - A major new power line that will connect the remote northern region of Kenya to the national grid, and will be used to transmit wind power, should be completed by the end of this year, a senior government official told Reuters on Tuesday.
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LOIYANGALANI, Kenya, Sept 5 Reuters) - A high voltage power line to carry electricity from a 310 megawatt (MW) wind power plant to central Kenya from the north is complete and supply to the national grid will stabilise by December, the energy minister said, replacing diesel generation.
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The claim that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi was actually Omar's brother first gained traction in the US in 2016 after a post by the conservative blog "Power Line," which pounced on allegations made on Somali Spot, a politics forum in the country of Omar's birth, Somalia.
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Photos shared with loved ones and on social media captured the group's final moments before the balloon, operated by Heart of Texas Hot Air Balloon Rides, hit a high tension power line and burst into flames, its charred remnants landing in a pasture in Lockhart, Texas.
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In April, California's Public Utilities Commission fined the Pacific Gas and Electric Company $8.3 million for failing to properly clear vegetation around a power line in the Sierra Nevada, sparking a fire in 2015 that burned more than 70,000 acres, killed two people, and destroyed 550 homes.
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The Chinese drone company does have a small line of aircraft it markets for things like power line inspection and crop spraying, and last year it hosted a conference in San Francisco, AirWorks, in an effort to engage deeper with the construction, agriculture and industrial inspection industries.
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READ: PG&E execs were literally partying in wine country while planning to cut power to millions of Californians The Kincade fire began last Wednesday, seven minutes after a nearby power line was damaged, though PG&E has yet to confirm if the power glitch started the blaze.
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Other specs apparently decided upon by committee are a slightly thicker chassis than the Surface Pro to allow for a bigger battery, and Intel Core i5 or i7 Y-series processors — that's the low-power line that used to be called Core M before Intel confusingly rebranded it.
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CEO Bill JohnsonWilliam (Bill) Leslie JohnsonCalifornia prepares for biggest blackout yet Largest California utility reports broken power line near wildfire origin Rolling blackouts sweep through Northern California, could hit southern part of state MORE said that it was too soon to know if its equipment sparked the blaze.
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The balloon, flown by Heart of Texas Hot Air Balloon Rides chief pilot and owner Alfred "Skip" Nichols, hit a power line, setting its basket on fire, and plummeted into a pasture near Lockhart, about 30 miles (50 km) south of the state capital Austin, killing all aboard.
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In a court filing, Judge William Alsup of the US District Court for the Northern District of California said the electric utility should also explain whether "reckless operation or maintenance of PG&E power lines" sparked any wildfires and answer additional questions about power line safety and wildfires.
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And while the pilot of the second chopper was highly experienced (he flies power-line inspectors right the live cables for his day job) the projector system itself was able to track the location of the screen to help ensure it was always on target giving both aircraft were moving independently.
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But as we surveyed the camp, full of people gathering among tents nervously chattering, there were signs of things that could've gone catastrophically wrong if the quake had hit closer: A power line stretched over our tents and linked to a pole that was on a rise right behind where we were camped.
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KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban have sabotaged a major power line in the northern province of Baghlan, officials said on Wednesday, cutting a supply of electricity from Uzbekistan to Kabul, the Afghan capital, and exposing a vulnerability in the nation's rickety infrastructure at a time when the insurgency has government forces thinly stretched.
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Construction on the 428 km, 20183-kilovolt power line, which will run from Loiyangalani in northern Kenya to Suswa in the centre of the country, started in November and had been due to be completed by October but has been delayed by demands for compensation from landowners along the route and other issues.
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A unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said Manua's Inc bore responsibility for the accident, in which a crane hit a power line and electrocuted the workers, because it had control over the construction site and its own employees were involved in the work.
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A Whitefish contract obtained by The Associated Press found that the deal included $20,277 an hour for a heavy lift Chinook helicopter, $650 an hour for a large crane truck, $322 an hour for a foreman of a power line crew, $319 an hour for a journeyman lineman and $286 an hour for a mechanic.
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In fact, the safety and design of our product renders this type of event nearly impossible … The product is designed to cook foods over a longer period of time at low temperatures and the switches connect to only 1 side of the power line voltage, so there is never a high voltage applied directly across our switches.
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The two - among the thousands of power-line workers brought in from out-of-state by major utilities - spent about five minutes outside a house in Fort Lauderdale, when two cars with women who said they lived in the neighborhood stopped to inquire about the return of power to their homes - obviously trying to get their attention.
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In 2001, the California Bird Records Committee added them to the list of California state birds, where they joined species such as house sparrows, rock pigeons (the ones that perch on every urban power line), and starlings: species that are not native to the state, but have become integrated into California ecosystems over the last century.
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The fatalities included people killed in two car crashes in Missouri on Saturday, a utility subcontractor who was hit by a falling tree while repairing a power line in Connecticut on Sunday, and a 12-year-old girl who died from asphyxia and hypothermia near Chicago after a snow fort she and a friend built collapsed while their parents were at church.
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Microgrids are becoming proven and popular around the world from India (where record floods couldn't stop solar power) to the University of California at San Diego, whose microgrid (powering 92 percent of the campus and saving $8 million a year) reversed flow and sent power back to the utility in less than a half-hour (until wildfires ate a power line).
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Read more: A Los Angeles bush fire has burned over 7,500 acres and prompted evacuation orders for 100,000 people — here are the latest updatesThe cause of the Los Angeles blaze wasn't immediately known, though arson investigators said a witness reported seeing sparks or flames coming from a power line near where the fire is believed to have started, said Peter Sanders, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Fire Department.
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Oh you real effulgent frailties Look a book, a banister, a sinister affirmation of how little we achieve in looking a bog, an orchard, an icy shore shorn of longing a flower, a power- line flecked with lingering over their split tails, then the mass of them amassing living darkening cloud When they settle I am slumped in my plushest lonely meadow, nook look, look the augur of them in the unfamiliar immediacy of any old mothering oak
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