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Jer's google forced me to google, look at this one, I can't open it, but the story is in this excert, remember all the manhole explosions?

Jolt from PG&E control box seriously burns woman
San Francisco Chronicle, United States - 42 minutes ago
... apparently broke into a Pacific Gas and Electric Co ... later at
a nearby fire station, seeking medical ... similar to the
underground transformer explosion in downtown ...

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Ping - this is in our neck of the woods.

Children Sickened At N.J. Catholic School

POSTED: 1:40 pm EDT October 4, 2005
UPDATED: 1:51 pm EDT October 4, 2005

EDISON, N.J. -- Authorities believe a food-borne illness sickened 14 elementary school children at Our Lady of Peace School in Edison Tuesday.

Police said four of the children were taken to JFK Medical Center in Edison. Another 10 were treated at the scene.

There's no word yet from school officials.

http://www.wnbc.com/education/5055868/detail.html

Jolt from PG&E control box seriously burns woman
- Steve Rubenstein, Chronicle Staff Writer
Tuesday, October 4, 2005

(10-04) 09:59 PDT SAN JOSE -- A San Jose woman was burned over 50 percent of her body early today when electricity surged through her after she apparently broke into a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. control box, authorities said.

The 41-year-old woman was being treated at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center for burns she suffered at 3 a.m. at Meridian and Foxworthy avenues in San Jose, police Sgt. Nick Muyo said.

The woman, who was not identified, was "apparently attempting to access the control box in order to remove copper wire,'' PG&E spokesman Jeff Smith said.

Smith said that PG&E copper wire is occasionally stolen and resold for its metal value.

The woman, accompanied by an unidentified companion, turned up a few minutes later at a nearby fire station, seeking medical help, Muyo said.

Police and PG&E said the incident did not appear to be similar to the underground transformer explosion in downtown San Francisco on Aug. 19 that critically injured a 40-year-old pedestrian and forced the utility to increase its transformer inspections.

"Whatever the circumstances, this is certainly a tragic incident," Smith said.

E-mail Steve Rubenstein at srubenstein@sfchronicle.com.

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©2005 San Francisco Chronicle

Here's more on the PG&E burned woman:

A woman was burned over about half her body early this morning when a piece of high-voltage electrical equipment flashed while she was allegedly tampering with it at a strip shopping mall in San Jose.

Police and fire officials said a man drove the woman to Fire Station 18, 4430 Monterey Highway, which is about 8 miles south of the incident, where paramedics treated her and brought her to the hospital.

The woman was taken to a local hospital and officials described the woman's condition as grave.

Police were called to the area of Meridian and Foxworthy avenues at about 3:04 a.m. by neighborhood reports of a transformer explosion. While police were on the scene of the incident, a call came less than 10 minutes later saying that a woman had been brought to Fire Station 18 with severe burns.

Investigators later learned that the woman had been at the scene of the reported explosion, said police Sgt. Nick Muyo.

Jeff Smith, a spokesman with PG&E said the woman had accessed a meter panel and was apparently trying to remove it when she accidentally crossed two wires, which caused a ``flashover'' -- an electrical discharge.

Smith said he didn't know why the woman was tampering with the utility's equipment.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/the_valley/12815490.htm