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Thursday night at 10 pm I have been trying to put my 3 1/3 yr old wired son to sleep when most of my dimmable lights went from 20 watts to 200 watts and back for several minutes, buy the time I could get to my breaker box and shut things down the damage was done, not realizing the extent of what had happened we walked the house and found two surge protectors had melted and smelled up our home. We opened up our front door to air out the house a bit when we saw that others were gathering outside to see if anyone else has experienced the same thing, looking down the street we saw about a dozen families getting together to trade the tales of the smell of burnt wire and plastic. Not more then 30 seconds later 6 yes 6 fire engines and 4 police cars arrived to get involed in our block party, 30 minutes later they all left the party to seek a livlier crowd, my power APC on my nano tank wouldn't stop giving off it's "Power Off" high pitch noise so I unplugged it to hook up my generator because the block of 15 homes was having a brown out now for 40 minutes. After unplugging it I had walked 6 feet from my tank when I heard that damm high pitched noise again, I got to the tank when I had discovered that it was not the APC so I walked to my dining room window and looked up to the second story of my good friends house and saw that their second story bedroom was totally engolfed with flames...........................I ran to my bedroom and yelled at my wife to call 911 and that the neighbors house was on fire, I ran to the neighbor's on the other house from them and banged on her door to get the key to their front door so when the fire department arrived the would not have to hack the door down. by this time 6 of us just stood there watching the bedroom of this house burn like it was made of balso wood and the only thing you could hear was the pounding of our hearts and the sound of crackling glass, 4 minutes later the fire department arrived and by the time I was done explaining the situation to the battalion cheif the fire was nearly out, I was a little shocked, the firefighters still went to work like it was a exposives factory standing at all points of the house and roof, the next thing we heard was the sound of breaking glass and chain saws, the fire that I thought was out became a pissed off pit bull, after the windows were broken throght the fire got the oxygen it needed to keep the guy's busy. 4 hours later things were coming to a close and the neighbors some came to me and thanked me for saving the bottom half of his parents home (They had been out of town for a month) the firefighters told me that the only thing that saved this house from total destruction was that before they left to go out of town they closed the guest room door and starved the fire of oxygen. They also said that 2 minutes more and house would have flashed and it would have been a total burn to the ground. So, it seems that the transformer next to us didn't blow it's little fuse and sent 6500 watts through 15 homes in my little area and tried to kill us, as it stands we are all still finding eveything from stovetops to laptops, fried GFCI's garage door openers, tv's (Pumps on my tank) you name it being pilled up on our front lawns (so to speak), I have flash burns on a couple walls in my house, I am still assessing the damage to my house and am still having my guy's coming and going to replace things such as my $1,000 tankless water heater ect. the only thing that saved my 2 plazma screens were my monster Power Surge Protectors (Melted) this saga will continue, everyone reading this should run out and buy some quality surge protectors to save their things and families.
