A little bit on fire...

Plenty of excitment at the shop the other day; a brief flicker of the lights, then a smell of smoke. Turns out, the box where the mains power comes into the building and is then split accross various businesses and to 3 phase etc, had been faulty (but for how long we don't really know) and had finally kicked the bucket and caught fire.

It later became evident that at some stage it blew 3 fuses on the pylon a bit further down the estate and took out the 3 phase for the unit at the back. The disturbing thing is that our electricity didn't actually stop even when the supply was on fire...

The Fire Brigade came pretty quick, and the electricity people came a lot later.

End result; no electricity for just over a day. We're back on now, but there's still a hole in the ground, which will be filled in "sometime this week, maybe".

On the plus side; it happened during the day when we were there and no one was hurt, also, we now have posters and brochures in at least 2 fire stations in the area.

Hooray for the Fire Brigade, muted slow hand-clap for the electricity board.