A.B. Chance porcelain cutouts

[daowens]

Folks:
I'm the reporter whose story was posted earlier in this thread and I remain interested in tracking down information about Chance cutouts, both good and bad. I wrote a story last week about a lineman who was badly injured in Massachusetts allegedly as a result of a failing chance cutout.

As for the CL&P employee being inside the Dunkin' Donuts in Farmington and that being the real story, I can only report what I was told my numerous officials. I was told by CL&P one of their people was in the area when the fire occurred and called in the problem to CL&P. CL&P did not say the employee was in the DD.

If he was in the DD and helped save the people in there too, good for him. He deserves credit because he helped prevent a real tragedy.

All the best,

Dave Owens
The Hartford Courant
dowens@courant.com