2 San Francisco Firefighters Shocked By Solar Panels At Fire

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2 firefighters battling Bayview blaze shocked by solar panels

Bay City News

Published 6:43 pm, Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Two firefighters were shocked by a rooftop solar panel while trying to extinguish a one-alarm fire at a home in San Francisco's Bayview District this afternoon, a fire department spokeswoman said.

The firefighters were battling the blaze from an adjacent roof and said they did not touch the solar panel, but still got shocked somehow.

“It’s possible that the solar panels, we had water up on the roof, there could have been electrical coming off the solar panels into the water which is a great conduit and the firefighter was standing in water,” Batallion Chief Michael Thompson said.

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