Guys,
One of the scariest calls I've been to involved a house out in the country that had no power, one night.
I had the flu at the time(middle of winter) and I was in no mood at all to play silly b$#*%rs.
When I got there, everyone(most of thier extended family was there, I think)was looking up at the pole.
As I thought it was just a bad set of DDO fuses(these do wear out), I went about replacing them.
First one went in OK, no sparks, there was a small spark with the second, I then told everyone to stand away from under the pole,
but I might as well have been talking to myself, as no-one moved.
I just touched the top of the DDO on the clip and all hell broke loose, all three DDO's went off, people were running everywhere, one just about knocked me over, it was raining sparks and flames.
The transformer had a dead short in the Y and B windings, so I found out from the line crew that replaced it the next day.
I suppose that these people will be staying INSIDE the house the next time the power goes off.
