utility pole
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In the notice, the commission said PG&E didn’t report the fire until two days after it broke out, and that it destroyed a utility pole and other equipment before investigators could examine them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
Residents lost electricity for a few hours before the Department of Water and Power repaired the utility pole Sunday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2025
After a utility pole fell and ignited a wildfire, Frank King and his family raced to escape as electrical transformers exploded around their homes near Oregon’s coast.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2024
But he doesn’t think it was the abandoned utility pole stump, which he remembers seeing in Hawaiian Electric’s right-of-way for the 20 years he’s lived there.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2023
With a swift wing beat she alighted above a transformer on an electric utility pole.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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