Walk around any neighborhood and look up. Chances are you'll see a utility pole with wires and other equipment. And for good reason. Utility poles dot the landscape of every town around the state ...

Very few utility poles are used for just one utility ... You can get a general idea of how high the voltage is by looking at the insulators used – the longer the insulator, the higher the ...

Each insulator covers 10 feet of line, 5 feet on each side of the utility pole. Electrocution occurs when a bird perches on an electrically charged wire and then completes the circuit by touching ...

Our eyes, washed clean of belief, lift incredulous to their fearsome crowns of bolts, trusses, struts, nuts, insulators ... John Updike’s 1963 poem, "Telephone Poles", pinched a few of his ...

The fire that incinerated four cars and a Dunkin’ Donuts restaurant May 7 began with a tiny crack in a porcelain insulator high atop a utility pole along Route 4 in Farmington. Through that ...

The two were contractors to Comcast, which shares a utility pole there ... poles and angling down from the pole to the ground—and an improperly installed insulator meant to keep such wires ...

The animal guard insulator is longer and larger than the squirrel. It increases the distance between the grounded and energized parts on the utility pole, therefore making it more difficult for a ...