{"id":198219,"date":"2026-01-10T10:08:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T18:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=198219"},"modified":"2026-01-10T10:08:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T18:08:50","slug":"transformer-explosion-near-chinese-camp-caused-widespread-power-outages-tuolumne-sheriffs-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=198219","title":{"rendered":"Transformer Explosion Near Chinese Camp Caused Widespread Power Outages ~ Tuolumne Sheriff&#8217;s Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese Camp, CA&#8230;Final Update: Deputies have been released from the scene and all evacuations have been lifted.  Additionally, responding crews were able to determine the explosion was due to a transformer and the location of the explosion was later determined to be at Engie, a facility neighboring the Ultrapower facility.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/tcso18.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/tcso18.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/tcso18.png 200w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/tcso18-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/tcso18-30x30.png 30w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Original: Reported Battery Explosion in the area of Pacific UltraPower<\/p>\n<p>Deputies and fire personnel are on scene in the area of Pacific Ultrapower near Chinese Camp after responding for a report of a lithium ion battery explosion.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival deputies conducted localized evacuations of the plant.<\/p>\n<p>There are no road closures or additional evacuations but please avoid the area if able, as there is a large presence of emergency responders working.<\/p>\n<p>We will provide additional updates when able.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese Camp, CA&#8230;Final Update: Deputies have been released from the scene and all evacuations have been lifted. Additionally, responding crews were able to determine the explosion was due to a transformer and the location of the explosion was later determined to be at Engie, a facility neighboring the Ultrapower facility. Original: Reported Battery Explosion in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,16,1,13,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-law-enforcement","category-news","category-traffic-fire","category-tuolumne-county","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/tcso18.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198220,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198219\/revisions\/198220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}