GFCI and AFCI outlets may look nearly identical, but they actually protect your home against very different hazards. Here's ...

FRIENDSHIP HEIGHTS, Md. (WJLA) — Another arcing insulator issue caused problems for commuters at the Friendship Heights Metro station. Metro experienced problems throughout Monday morning on the Red ...

Arcing ground faults are common on 480Y/277V, 3-phase, 4-wire electrical systems. Arcing ground faults can be caused by human error when working around electrical ...

Electrical arcing incidents — which can lead to track fires — have more than doubled on Metro since last summer — a spike that undermines the agency’s contention that safety and reliability are ...

The National Transportation Safety Board said the smoke in the Metro tunnel near L'Enfant Plaza was caused by electrical arcing, which occurs when electricity escapes its prescribed path. Metro has ...

When two distinctly separate fires occurred at the same time inside a house in southwestern Ohio, the homeowner was left searching for answers in the aftermath of destruction. Although thankfully no ...

Imagine a cockpit without the phalanxes of button-type circuit breakers. The breakers have been distributed to where they are needed throughout the aircraft. In fact, the breakers are of a new arc ...

Fog rolling off the open Rideau River near Lees Station condensed and froze to the LRT’s overhead power lines in the area during a Jan. 4 freezing rain storm, adding to an ice build-up that exceeded ...