Case Study
Transformer Blaze Response Reveals Strength Under Fire
It’s often said that character is revealed under pressure. Nowhere is this more evident than in how a company responds to a major emergency. The PECO Gas & Electric Co. transformer fire and spill of December 2011 is proof positive. At approximately 3:00 p.m. on a Sunday, a catastrophic failure at an electri- cal substation in Glenn Mills, Pennsylvania, caused a fire that resulted in the spill of some 30,000 gallons of transformer oil. Not o