Tower Problems - explosion rocks
Texas transmission tower
Remember our recent story about a fire bug in the Pacific Northwest burning
down radio towers. Fires that cost one ham his home. Well that fire bug
still has not been caught and authorities are still looking for leads
in the case.
And while we do not know if there is any connection, but news reports
say that Federal investigators are now looking into the circumstances
surrounding an explosion at a power line transmission tower near Dallas,
Texas on October 27th. The reports say that one leg of the support structure
appeared to have been severed in two places.
Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco and Firearms, along with local police, are investigating.
TOWER PROBLEMS: VANDAL FELLS TWO TOWERS
But that's not the only tower vandalism to report this week. Another
instance is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where a company that owns two power
transmission towers that were deliberately toppled two weeks ago says
that it is willing to pay big bucks to have the person who did it put
behind prison bars.
The American Transmission Company is offering a $10,000 reward for information
that leads to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the criminal
act that left 17,000 customers without electrical service.
News reports in the one say that a person or persons unknown removed
the base bolts from the eighty five foot towers causing them to tumble.
American Transmission says that it is installing two temporary wooden
structures to support the downed power lines until such time as replacements
can be put in.
Meantime investigators want the person behind these criminal acts behind
bars before he or she strikes again.
(Published reports)
Source: Wireless
Institute of Australia
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