One day last summer, I just cleared a call in north Akron, and the dispatcher
asked if I would go help Al out on a call? He was the Kent troubleman and he
could use my help on an outage. When I arrived on location, I saw his truck
parked there but no Al. There was three phase that disappeared into the woods,
with the C phase 100 T fuse blown. I gave Al a call. He was patrolling the
line out. He said everthing was up and to refuse the door and plug it in. It
held. When Big Al came tromping out of the woods we went to the other end of
the three phase, to a urd housing allotment. There was a three phase overhead
power bank that fed a lift station right next to a lake. The C phase fuse was
blown there.A double blow. At the base of the pole, we thought we might find
the reason for the blow. A squirrel,bird or raccoon. Instead, we found a large
fish with its head chewed completely off. Evidently, a bird must have caught
the fish and decided to have lunch on top of the transformer. When the fish
made contact with the primary riser, it blew both cut-outs. We both laughed
when Al said that the dispatcher will never believe this one. He called it in
giving him the info and when the dispatcher asked if we found the cause Al
told him yes, a fish. "RIGHT!" came from the dispatcher. So I took the fish in
that afternoon and placed it on his desk. He thought we were pulling his leg.
Not so. In shooting trouble, you never know what's going to happen next.
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