Officials say a fire at the Hoover Dam was isolated to the single area in an exceedingly rare case of a transformer catching on fire
, causing a fire that lasted about a half-hour and sending plumes of black smoke swirling through the air.
Hoover Dam, about 25 miles southeast of Las Vegas on the Nevada-Arizona border, is one of the tallest concrete dams in the U.S. at 726 feet . It supplies hydroelectric power for about 350,000 homes in Arizona, California and Nevada. “All of our protection equipment kicked right in, so it was isolated to that ,” Hendrix told the TV station. “So we were very fortunate.”All power plants have transformers, which are mainly used to increase the voltage of electricity generated to send over transmission lines, said Jordan Kern, an assistant professor of natural resources at North Carolina State University.
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