Author - Chris Williams
Submitted By -We got the call one day that police and fire were standing by and that our lines were burning on the ground. When we got there there were several fire trucks and police cars stationed at several locations within a 1/4 mile radius. What we saw was on every cable tv anchor within a 1/4 mile ( 4 anchors and 3 risers ), there was 8000 volts going to ground and putting on a good light show. We found that a car had hit a catv anchor on a buck arm pole and had wrapped around the feeder. Normally it would have been 3 shots and out but for some reason the breaker kept coming back in! Needless to say that within that 1/4 mile radius, catv had to replace all their wire( fiber optic ) in the air, and all their underground including pedestals and power supplies.
Chris Williams