Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Maine wind turbine fire under investigation

Tuesday May 14, 2013
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- An investigation into the cause of a fire that destroyed a wind turbine at New England’s largest wind farm is expected to wrap up within a month.
The Jan. 16 blaze, the first reported turbine fire in Maine, burned out the gear box at the top of one of the 44 turbine towers at the Kibby Wind farm in northern Franklin County, said Grady Semmens, spokesman for the company that owns the farm. Nobody was injured and the fire burned itself out before it could spread, he said.[Brattle Boro Reformer]

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