HONOLULU (KHON2) — An electrical engineer says several factors could have played a role in causing the fire that led to Monday night’s outage.
Although the cause of the fire is still unknown, there could be a few reasons why the fire started.
“Electrical fires are are not uncommon,” said Steve Durbin, UH Manoa Associate Dean of Engineering. “And when you’re running high voltage transmission lines, especially underground, it’s one of the things that you have to prepare for.”…