On Monday, Father Orthoduck published about the small fire that he started accidentally at the church on Sunday. However, the video above demonstrates that far worse mistakes are made by well-meaning people. This happened earlier today in Springfield, Ohio, USA.
“Oh no.”
Those were some of the last words heard before shouts to get back as the old Mad River Power Plant’s 275-foot tower toppled in the wrong direction about noon Wednesday.
The blasts should have sent the stack onto a cleared area directly to the east, but instead the tower crashed to the southeast.
No one was injured but the tower knocked down two 12,500-volt power lines and smashed a building housing back-up generators.
The electrical lines came crashing down as a crowd of about 25 media members, FirstEnergy Corp. employees, demolition crews and their family members scattered to avoid the live lines.
“It just started leaning the other way and I thought, ‘Holy cow’ … It was terrifying for a little bit,” Springfield Twp. Fire Chief John Roeder said.
About 4,000 customers on the west side of the city lost power for more than two hours and traffic lights in at least nine intersections went down.
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