Waynesville firefighters responded Tuesday to a treecutting gone bad that knocked a transformer into other trees.
Treecutter knocks electric transformer into trees Tuesday afternoonBUCKHORN, Mo. (July 9, 2009) — Waynesville firefighters had to deal with an electric transformer that became tangled in tree limbs and cable telephone wires after an effort to cut down a tree went awry about 4 p.m. Tuesday. Fire Chief Doug Yurecko warned that no one should try to cut down trees unless they’re trained to do so. “You have to really know what you’re doing when you’re cutting down trees,” Yurecko said. “If you don’t know what you’re doing, don’t do it ... If it hadn’t hit the transformer, it could have hit a house; it could have fallen on the individual trying to cut the tree down.” Dealing with downed or damaged electric lines is even more dangerous, Yurecko warned. “If a tree makes contact with the wires, even if it doesn’t knock the wire down, the tree could be energized,” Yurecko said. “It’s a really good easy way to get killed.”
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