. . . if you'd watched more TV in the 1980s you'd still be alive!
Both parents and one of the children in a family in Southern California have been electrocuted to death in their own back yard. Even worse: they had two more kids inside the house, now orphans.
It seems at least partly like it wasn't their fault they died. This was the SECOND time a power line fell and started a fire in the family's back yard. Do you call 911 and wait for the fire company, or do you fight a fire threatening your home? It seems, if the fire was started by a 12kV high tension line, you might want to let it burn.
The above commercial played on TV during kids' cartoon time when I was growing up, in a mix with at least a half-dozen others starring Louie the Lightning Bug. From the time we were old enough to understand words, we were told to keep away from and not do things that would kill us like curious cats. I guess it might be easy not to see a high tension line lying like a snake in your burning grass, but here's a PSA for you:
Look out for downed power lines when you go spraying water on unexplained fires in the vicinity of (formerly) elevated power lines.
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