Both fire and police departments responded to the explosion and upon arrival two men were found dead at the scene, police said. Wetzel
, deputy coroner of Hall County. Autopsies are still being conducted to confirm the cause of death, Wetzel said. Holbrook said one of the men was killed by electrocution, and"there were visible marks" on his body. The other man could have been killed by the transformer explosion, he said. Recovery efforts were challenging, he said, with one of the men's bodies found"one-two stories up on the top of a substation" and the other man was found at the bottom of a substation in"a pool of water." that metal theft costs U.S. businesses around $1 billion a year.
Holbrook said the Gainesville power station had numerous robberies in 2008, and then thefts stopped until recently. This was the second time in two years thieves had tried to steal copper wire and electrical components from this substation, linked, Holbrook thinks, to the opioid crisis. Nationwide, power stations have been reporting a rise in copper wire or metal theft. A man was electrocuted and killed in October for stealing $20 of copper wire, an Oregon utility
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Karma got back at them. Stealing is stealing.
All for a shocking good time 🤣
Good
Wow, that’s…shocking,
Power plant. Live wires. Clumsy, ignorant copper thieves. What could go wrong?
Well THAT sure is an illuminating story!! Hopefully the coppers on scene are safe!
Darwin Award winners
Excellent
Darwin Award winners!
DarwinAwards 🏆🏆
Stealing copper or trying to sabotage the substation? Seen stories of MAGAts recently trying to be terrorists
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QuirkyGrrrl FAFO
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Dying for drugs smh.
Darwin was right.
What a sad way to die.
Well, there ya go….
Copper Termites - as they're known in the industry.
HereAndNowNV FAFO
Bye felicia
Oh well. ✌️😎
A Darwin Award in action.
Perfect outcome
Play stupid games...
kelly2277
I can't say I am sorry.
Oh well.
Copper definitely has value, but not in exchange for your life. Very sad
Bwahahahaha
Darwin Award Winner
You shouldn't steal things that don't belong to you kids. That's a nasty piece of Karma. My thoughts and prayers to the family.
Shocking news
Hahaha😂😂😂 got sorted out and off to the afterlife
Too bad. Saved Georgia money from prosecuting them.
Natural selection.
Better to just get a job. ⚡️
oops there's two less votes Brad can find on the 11,780 that realDonaldTrump asked him to find
America has so many gullible people