CHESTER HILL – Penelec will participate in Chester Hill’s upcoming National Night Out, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., on Tuesday, Aug. 1 at the Chester Hill Borough Building at 920 Walton St., Philipsburg.
National Night Out is a campaign that promotes police-community partnership at the neighborhood level to improve safety, with thousands of events taking place the night of Aug. 1 across all 50 states and Canada.
Penelec will bring its new electrical safety trailer to the event to show the public the visible and hidden—and potentially deadly—dangers of electricity often encountered with downed wires from storms or car-pole accidents.
Penelec employees will also man a table with customer information, coloring books and plastic hardhats to hand out to kids.
The safety trailer—a safe setting—provides an extremely visual (and audible) look at the dangers associated with power lines and other electrical equipment.
The photo illustrates one of the many exhibits on the trailer—electricity arcing off an energized car door—a common scenario when live wires drop onto a car during an accident involving a utility pole.
The trailer demo shows what can happen when a ladder comes into contact with a live overhead wire—a risk for roofers and homeowners cleaning gutters or painting. Equally dangerous can be digging inadvertently into underground electrical cables.
