I'd like to put my own opinion to this thread.
After having done 20 years as a Fire Officer, I would back electure up (not because he is a Moderator here or anything like that).
The simple fact of the matter is, the initial call to the emergency services was not made!
In any situation like that over here, a "heads-up" is all it takes to get some sort of a response started.
Yet these clowns stood there and continued to record video footage.
It is sites like this and YouTube that encourage people to get their camera or phone camera out and forget about reality, the reality of it is, someone should be notified that this is going on, even though Mr Great Camera Guy is getting the footage.
Just as a note, Break actually pays people to get stuff like this.
On the side of reality, we do respond to anything involving power lines arcing and trees meeting them, we can stand back, but at least we are there on the fire-ground, at a safe distance.
Let's be real about this whole scenario.
