Tour group captured smoke rising from historic landmark on Arizona-Nevada border
A fire broke out after an explosion at Hoover Dam, a major hydroelectric power plant on the border of US states of Arizona and Nevada, on Tuesday morning. The fire was put out by the time firefighters from nearby Boulder City arrived on the scene, but the moment of the explosion was captured by a tour group.
“My goodness, something just blew up,” someone can be heard saying in a short video posted on Twitter by Kristy Hairston, a writer based in Nashville, Tennessee who was visiting the dam with a group of other tourists. A pillar of thick black smoke can be seen rising from the power plant at the bottom of the dam.
touring the #hooverdam and heard an explosion #fire pic.twitter.com/1tjWuNWBaZ
— Kristy Hairston (@kristynashville) July 19, 2022
Hairston’s video was posted at 10:11 local time. BY 10:51, Boulder City officials said the fire had been extinguished before their fire brigade arrived on the scene.
According to the publicly posted plans of the dam, the explosion took place in the area housing the turbines and transformers. The causes of the explosion and fire, or the extent of damage caused, are as yet unknown.
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