Texas wind turbine fire 
Radar animation of lightning over North Texas
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CROWELL, Texas - A North Texas wind farm is one turbine down thanks to what officials believe was a devastating lightning strike to one of the massive structures on Friday afternoon.
Videos from witnesses and firefighters showed the wind turbine generator ablaze and disintegrate in the sky over Crowell, Texas.
Doppler radar indicated there was plenty of lightning strikes around the Foard City wind facility before firefighters received the call about the high-altitude fire.
Crews with the Crowell Volunteer Fire Department responded, but Fire Chief Perry Shaw said there was little his firefighters could do to put the fire out.
"We’re not equipped to handle that kind of fire. Nobody in the area really is to speak of," Shaw said.
The fire chief estimated there were 800 gallons of oil in the gearbox and around 1,300 gallons of mineral oil in the ground-level transformer, which caused the smoke to appear dark black in the sky.
The facility’s operator, Innergex Renewable Energy, said all personnel at the more than 31,000-acre complex are safe, and the fire only impacted one of its energy turbines.
The Foard City wind farm has around 139 GE turbines and was commissioned in September 2019.
Shaw said he has seen plenty of videos of turbine fires, but this is the first time he recalled an incident involving one in Crowell.
"We’ve done training with the wind farm company, and they are not safe to approach during that scenario. There weren’t any people in danger of being hurt, so we let the fire do what it is going to do," Shaw said.
Texas produces more power from wind than any other state, and the U.S. Energy Information Administration reports the Lone Star State is home to more than 13,000 turbines.
The morons in Texas used to brag about their windmills
Is that the same one already posted down below?
To maintain the simulation someone must say Lou Christie.
VIDEO: Wind turbine struck by lighting in Cromwell, Texas
https://rumble.com/v1d9ibd-wind-turbine-struck-by-lighting-in-cromwell-texas..html
Don’t forget about the house sized concrete and steel thing underground holding it up
Forty plus percent of Texas’ electric portfolio is dependent on wind. It sucks to be stupid.
Texas wind turbine fire Radar animation of lightning over North Texas
It did put up a good fight - it kept spinning for a bit even after it was engulfed in flames.
Don Quixote would be impressed.
Different FOX NEWS report location I guess???
But, same info... Other link is closer.
“800 gallons of oil in the gearbox and around 1,300 gallons of mineral oil in the ground-level transformer, “
The fire wouldn’t have happened if they had used electricity in the gearbox instead of oil. Just more proof we’ve got to move faster to get rid of fossil fuels.
“It did put up a good fight - it kept spinning for a bit even after it was engulfed in flames.
Don Quixote would be impressed.”
Very Funny :D
I see a lot of wasted lightning electricity there.
We need to add lightning catchers as a source of electricity.
Solar and wind are getting passé. Everyone has them.
Nature’s takin’ over my one-track mind.
The turbine got the 1.21 Gigawatts but it was not traveling 88 mph
I really enjoyed the carcinogenic toxic black smoke.
I just noticed identical title
All you had to do was a title search
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