When I was a lineman some knuckleheaded backhoe operaor had his bucket fully upright and hit the lines we were pulling out and slapped them into to secondary power lines. It shot fire balls down the wires and started about eight poles to catch fire. I had just let go of the strand and was circling the pole when the fire ball flashed by me. My groundsman had just pulled the floating ground off the spool to start cinching up the wire when the fire ball hit the ground.
We ran from pole to pole putting fires out.
My stepsister’s father was killed when someone got a backhoe into some power lines.
Yikes! That could’ve been bad.