When a house is on fire, they will usually use use water to put it out. But aren‘t they at risk of getting an electrical shock since there is usually still power in the house and they flood everything with water?
In: Engineering
I can’t speak for the firefighter side of it, but from the electrical side, everything after the Mains Distribution Panel is on either a circuit breaker, or a fuse which will instantly turn off power to that circuit if the current becomes shorted or a condition occurs that tries to “draw” more current than the circuit protection device is designed to allow.
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