Wind turbines love exploding into toxic fireballs that firefighters don’t even bother putting out. It’s a case of burn, baby burn when these things self-immolate.
The staggering rise in the number of turbine fires and total turbine collapses has caused insurers to ramp up the premiums they require to insure them.
Understandably, neighbours are getting sick and tired of being covered with palls of toxic smoke when these things burst into flames.
This time the pyrotechnic pandemonium takes place in Ontario.
Wind turbine blaze ‘contained’ north of Goderich, Ont.
London CTV
Scott Miller
4 June 2023
Todd Edginton could hardly believe his eyes when he looked out his back door to find a wind turbine on fire. He wasn’t alone, as people stopped just north of Goderich to see the spectacle unfold.
“I was going back to the cottage along Highway 21 from Goderich, and saw this. I said to myself, ‘Something odd is going on here,’ so I came looking to see what was happening,” said Listowel native, Warren Howard.
Todd Edginton could hardly believe his eyes when he looked out his back door to find a wind turbine on fire. He wasn’t alone, as people stopped just north of Goderich to see the spectacle unfold.
“I was going back to the cottage along Highway 21 from Goderich, and saw this. I said to myself, ‘Something odd is going on here,’ so I came looking to see what was happening,” said Listowel native, Warren Howard.
Salman Hossain was heading to Goderich’s beach from Toronto when he saw smoke in the distance.
“At first, I thought nobody saw it, and I should call 9-1-1, but then you [Scott Miller] showed up, and told me what was going on,” said Hossain.
What Hossain and Howard saw was thick black smoke streaming from the top of a towering wind turbine, just off of Golf Course Road, two concessions north of Goderich.
The fire was spotted around 6:30 a.m. By, 9 a.m., the main fire, which was centred on the nacelle, or main mechanical and electrical box atop the turbine, was out. But, flames continued to spread down one of the blades.
Goderich fire crews remained on scene for much of the day to ensure nothing falling from the turbine sparked a fire on the ground. Extreme dry conditions sparked a burn ban in Huron and Bruce County earlier this week.
“You’ve got to be careful about these things. Luckily, there’s no crops in the fields. We’re dry, but there’s nothing to burn at the moment,” said Howard, who also works for Wind Concerns Ontario and sits on the Multi-Municipal Wind Turbine Working Group.
Because the fire was so high off the ground, nearly 100 metres up, firefighters couldn’t actually put it out. It appears the turbine has a fire suppression system, and the fire simply burned itself out, although Capital Power, who operates the 22 turbine Kingsbridge 1 Wind Farm, where Saturday’s fire happened, said an incident investigation will tell them more.
This is the second wind turbine fire at the Kingsbridge 1 Wind Farm, which was constructed in 2006. The last fire in 2013 was very similar, with damage focused on the nacelle, and fire crews forced to watch the fire from the ground.
Howard thinks sprinkler systems should be mandatory on all Ontario wind turbines.
“You can’t get up to the thing they call the ‘nacelles,’ so you gotta have sprinkler systems up there when fires start. There’s a lot of oil up there,” he explained.
No one was injured in Saturday’s turbine blaze, which was contained to the single turbine. It’s unclear how long or how much it will cost to fix the damaged turbine, but the next few weeks will be busy for the wind farm operators, Capital Power, as they investigate the damage done 100 metres in the air.
“They do have a risk. I think there’s been 10 in Ontario over the past 10 years that have failed in various ways,” said Howard.
London CTV
STOP THESE THINGS 
Just west of that turbine fire in the CTV article written by Scott Miller, is a camping ground where lots of innocent men, women and children were camping the morning of that fire.
“No one was injured in Saturday’s turbine blaze, which was contained to the single turbine.”
Why is there no mention of the toxic fumes from that turbine fire?
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Fourth of July all year round!
Nasty dangerous things.
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“There’s a lot of oil up there”. One for deluded anti-oil protesters to ponder.
‘contained’ surely not!!! that is unless contained has a new meaning with respect to these things. I think a better explanation would be – burnt itself out while others watched ready to take action if it should explode and cause a fire away from the turbine.
Add this to all the Solar farms that were just destroyed by hail storms in middle Ameica. now we have piles of toxic glass that can’t be recycled that could pollute the ground water.