***What would cause a nail in wood to heat up and burn the wood around the nail?
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Radiant heat. That’s also why even though the wind is blowing away from the house (at the end of the video), the house is starting to smoke and start to catch fire.
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Hot nail-—burned wood: A common enough setup might very well be a coil/loop of electric wire around or near the nail in the post. Induction from any convenient electric source can heat that nail right up. An easy way to check that possibility is to wrap a loop of copper wire around a nail or any stick of iron and touch the wire’s ends to the posts on a D cell. It seems there were electric shorts and power surges all over the place so even a loop of fence wire, hit by a power surge, could heat up a fence nail/staple quickly.
It’s notable that the company that monitors performance of the island elec. grid said there were at least 34 large power surges in the storm time frame. If the power grid has the typical 12,500 volt current in its main delivery sections even a tiny piece of that for a second would heat up all kinds of metallic stuff.
And now that you mention it, it’s entirely possible that a bunch of those house fires were started by power surges. HECO has never been big on installed surge protectors and there’s no way those older stick-built houses have any kind of surge protection so a quick burst of high voltage could light up an entire wall.
And the counties are about as lazy/halfassed as they can be when it comes to inspecting electrical installations. You just depend on your installer to make it work about right.
As a registered PE there for some years I’ve slugged numerous desks to get buttsliders out to do their jobs. Been there. Seen it. Not surprised.