"The explosion that followed was so violent it lit the earth itself on fire. Sixty-nine thousand volts, enough to feed the substation, diverted from the wire into the new pole and rocketed toward the ground."
"In the current's way stood Justin Bryan, a thirty-year-old father and music director at his local church, who was balancing the pole from below. The current ripped through Bryan's body, killing him."
"Two other linemen, Jefferey Busch and Matthew Waldrop, fathers in their late twenties and early thirties, were also in contact with the pole and were left crawling on the charred earth, horrifically burned but alive."
In Seminole, Florida, a crew of power linemen faced a tragic incident while replacing a utility pole. The boom operator accidentally contacted high-voltage transmission lines, causing a violent explosion. The surge of 69,000 volts struck Justin Bryan, a lineman, killing him instantly. Two other linemen, Jefferey Busch and Matthew Waldrop, were severely burned but survived. The incident left bystanders helpless as the energized wires posed a continuous danger, preventing immediate assistance.
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