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‘The irony’s not lost on me’: Solar panel safety device led to 500 per cent rise in rooftop fires – Sydney Morning Herald
A solar panel safety device designed to protect firefighters from electric shock is behind an alarming increase in rooftop blazes, with incidents jumping more than…
The ironys not lost on me. Theyre there for firefighters but theyre creating their own fire risks, Superintendent Kingsland said.
Were trying to avoid a worst-case scenario of a house catching fire and potentially someone getting severely injured or even killed.
Superintendent Graham Kingsland with a burnt out DC isolators. Credit:Fire and Rescue NSW
According to the regulator, a record 101,224 solar panels systems were installed in NSW last year, a 26 per cent jump on the previous record set in…
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