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Smart Meter that caught fire after installation

Smart Meter that caught fire after installation

Sedona AZ (July 23, 2012)The following is written by Sedona, Arizona resident Warren Woodward. He encourages its sharing via social networks and email distribution:

Is everyone on the APS Smart Meter Opt out List? If not call today and register that you DO NOT WANT a SMART METER! I have a friend with 2 houses, one down in the Valley and one here in Sedona. The house in the Valley has electricity supplied by the Salt River Project (SRP). SRP is not regulated by the Arizona Corporation Commission.

SRP placed a so-called “smart” electric meter on her Valley house. After the installation, my friend noticed that her bill never went down when she left the house to spend time in Sedona. A normal monthly bill for the Valley house was about $300, and a normal monthly bill when that house was empty was around $100 since the fridge and pool pump were left running. But with the “smart” meter – the bill never went down when the house was empty. It was always around $300, empty or occupied.

This experience has happened to others throughout the country wherever “smart” meters have been installed. Indeed, some of her Valley neighbors had the same billing rip-off when they vacated their houses.

The stock standard response of the power companies is flat out denial. “Smart meters are never wrong.” “The new meters are digital and solid state.” “It was your old meter that was wrong.”

Thus are the lies.

Since SRP is not regulated by the ACC, they can and do charge a fee to anyone who wants their “smart” meter replaced with analog (The ACC has not yet ruled on an “opt out” fee for the AZ utilities they regulate).

My friend is paying the $22 per month SRP opt-out fee. Now that she has an analog electric meter back on her house she also gets her old, normal bill when she closes up her house. $122 per month is $22 more than what she used to pay but it is cheaper than the $300 she was paying with the “smart” meter for an empty house.

There are a couple of lessons here. One is that the power companies lie.

Here is another example of a power company lying.

In this instance the lie is about both the strength and duration of the microwave radiation given off by “smart” meters. All of the power companies that I know of across the country tell the same lies. I have heard this particular lie, as well as the billing lie, in person at the ACC meetings on “smart” meters. The graphs in this article are a powerful visual demonstration of the difference between reality and power company lies:

http://stopkiuc.com/2012/06/actual-smart-meter-microwave-exposure-video-taped-kapaa-kauai/

Suggested action to take:

If you have a ‘smart” meter, demand its removal. APS has been removing “smart” meters for those who demand it.

If you do not have a “smart” meter, call APS or your electricity provider and demand to be placed on their opt-out list.

One reason this is important is because at the last ACC meeting, APS was able to tell the commissioners that “only” 3,700 people had opted out. With over a million customers, APS was obviously trying to marginalize opposition.

The ACC has not ruled on “smart” meters yet. So numbers matter. Make your opposition known. After you tell APS, tell the ACC you do not want and will not accept a “smart” meter or a fee to keep your analog meter. Here are the commissioners email addresses:

Pierce-web@azcc.gov, Newman-web@azcc.gov, Burns-web@azcc.gov, Stump-web@azcc.gov, Kennedy-web@azcc.gov

If you don’t care then the ACC won’t care either.

Feel free to forward this email (information) to others.

Warren Woodward
Sedona, AZ

PS – Just because you do not have a “smart” meter now does not mean you will not get one in the future. APS does have Sedona on schedule for “smart” metering. So don’t wait. Act now! 

Also read Kristen Monday’s 2011 Sedona Eye Smart Meter article and its 15 comments: https://sedonaeye.com/aps-smart-meters-invasion-of-privacy

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19 Comments

  1. Call ‎(602) 371-7171/ (800) 253-9405 (outside metro-Phoenix) or aps@aps.com — When you talked to APS, they will ask you the reason why you refuse Smart Meters, tell them it’s health and privacy issue among other things.

  2. To the people of Sedona:

    Below is a reprint of a letter I wrote this week to Arizona Corporation Commission chairman Steve Pierce regarding my recent experience with Arizona Public Service when I tried to opt-out, by telephone, of their smart-meter installation at my house (following this you will find my recount to our Mayor and Council describing APS’s outrageous written response to my request):

    Monday July 23, 2012

    Re: Arizona Public Service Account No. 00XXXXXXX

    Dear Commissioner Pierce,

    This morning at 11:35am I called APS and reached the “Smart-Meter Center.” I explained to a young man named Mike that I wanted to opt out of the APS Smart-Meter Program and he asked why? I explained to him that my 93-year old father, who lives with me, has digital electronic equipment services for health purposes installed on his person and in our house, including advanced VA provided hearing aids, and VA provided digital oxygen equipment, that other ambient micro-waves may interfere with. While he sympathetically said that he understood, he told me that in order to grant the opt-out request that my father and I would have to agree to have an APS residential classification of “dangerous property” assigned to our house. There is nothing dangerous whatsoever about our house in Sedona anymore so than in other house in our neighborhood or this City. I see no logical reason for this whatsoever. How do I know this designation will not be communicated to our local fire and police departments and affect their emergency response times? Nevertheless, I was forced to agree to that false designation. I take this to be a form of retaliation or intimidation. What would you suggest that I do relative to this APS tactic?

    Very Sincerely,

    J. Rick Normand
    James A. Normand

    Re: Letter to Mayor Adams concerning APS written response to opt-out request following request to APS by telephone:

    July 26, 2012

    Good Morning Rob,

    If you will open the attachment, which is a copy of the letter that my Dad has just received from APS, you will find that it is a thank you letter for requesting an installation pamphlet. As you know from having read the letter I sent to the Chairman of the Arizona Corporation and copied to you, this is the precise opposite of what I asked for and was promised, namely an APS letter of confirmation of our [my Dad and I] request to opt-out of the installation of the new APS Smart Meter due to medical reasons which they said they understood. Rob, sending of this letter is no accident and constitutes more than an outrage. Telling me that my property will have to be designated a “dangerous property” in order to qualify for grant of our opt-out request to APS was bad enough, but this borders on criminality by design. I know what is going to happen next. An APS installer, unannounced and without permission, is going to trespass on my property and install a Smart Meter as if they had never heard from my Dad and me. They will be willing to put my elderly father’s life in jeopardy at worst and, at best, to create a great deal of stress for him. If the APS Smart Meter prevents his hearing aid from working properly or his digital oxygen delivery system, then a life-threatening situation could occur because he can’t hear an alarm or me yelling a warning to him and because his ability to breathe could be could off in which case there would be little time for even our city EMT’s to get to our home. Meanwhile, a massive new daily dose of Smart Meter electromagnetic microwaves passing through his body, considering all the x-rays, MRI’s and Cat-Scans he has to endure will bring him to an early end. Arizona Public Service needs to have someone in authority, such as you, our Mayor, to put a stop to their trickery, intransigence and their willingness to harm the public and the citizens of Sedona.

    Thank you for your offer of help,

    Rick and James A. Normand

  3. I have just learned that Mayor Adams has requested the City Manager call APS to get an answer to my allegations and that he will also be looking at a date to schedule a Council meeting to discuss Smart Meters.

    I’ve also just received a response from AZ Corporation Commission Chairman Steve Pierce’s office confirming that they will start an investigation.

    Thank you Mayor Adams and Chairman Pierce,

    J. Rick Normand

  4. This is just so very important.

    Thank you Warren, Rick, Nancy, local neighbors, friends and people throughout the country who continue to combat this dreadful madness proving that terrorists exist in many forms.

    Most of all I wish to express my gratitude to Mayor Adams for displaying the courage to bring a MAJOR civic issue to the council table in lieu of dedicating precious and valuable city council meeting time to the “wish lists” of the few who are attempting to control Sedona. (IMO)

    Sincerely,

    Eddie S. Maddock

  5. Neema Enriquez retweeted you on Twitter 6 Aug:
    Opts out of APS meters https://sedonaeye.com/opt-out-of-aps-smart-meters-now

  6. Military Info. on Dangers of Smart Meters, & Coming Plans of Energy Agenda Worldwide.

    http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=31891
    Smart Meter Dangers: The Health Hazards…

  7. N Baer says:

    N. Baer via Facebook comment: Thermografix Consulting Corporation Blog » Heart & Pacemaker Disruption From Smart Meter Frequencies http://www.thermoguy.com For news, information and everything related to the exciting world of thermographic imaging.

  8. http://texansagainstsmartmeters.com/?p=216

    Class Action Lawsuit brought by Texans Against Smart Meters…check it out

  9. Nancy Baer says:

    For those who are against EMF/RF I found what some of us have been searching for on this Israeli blog . . . http://norad4u.blogspot.com/2012/08/this-is-translation-to-english-of.html “Today we do know of some mechanism in which low RF signals can cause damage to biological systems:

    1. DNA breaks – Lai 1996

    2. Brain blood barrier – Salford 2004.

    3. Creation of Free radicals – Fridman 2007”

  10. Nancy Baer says:

    FOR HEALTH CARE WORKERS/DOCTORS, ETC. 3/30/12 The Austrian Medical Association EMF diagnosis and treatment guidelines complete with ICD codes and recommended threshold levels (e.g. SBM-2008) and EMF testing protocols (e.g. VDB Guidelines) are based on the building biology approach.

    http://es-uk.info/news/2012-03-30-oak-emf-treatment.asp

    Ill health from WiFi
    http://es-uk.info/docs/front-01-ill-health-wifi.pdf

    Ill health from ‘Smart’ meters
    http://es-uk.info/docs/front-02-ill-health-smart-meters.pdf

  11. Jeff D. says:

    why women keep getting panties in a wad who knows why you keep making mountains out of mole hills

  12. N. Baer says:

    The “science” has been proven that ‘Smart’ meters emitting electromagnetic and radio frequency and constantly communicating with your cell phone, IPad, IPod, plasma TV, laptop, cordless telephone, insulin pump, pace maker, cell towers, etc., saturating us with radiation, messes with our 10 trillion cells and permanently damages our DNA.

    About 5,000 studies have been “peer reviewed” by qualified, credible researchers. Here’s a chart showing “Examples of Effects Found in Research and Epidemiological Findings
    http://www.emfwise.com/science.php

  13. Jeff D.,

    Why don’t you learn how to write an intelligible sentence [as opposed to an intelligent sentence] before posting comments?

    P.S. While you’re at it, why don’t you learn how to punctuate a sentence as well?

  14. N. Baer says:

    The IEEE weighs in on ‘Smart’ meter fires . . . We are seeing a spate of report from around the United States—and indeed around the world—of fires believed to have been caused by smart meters that were faulty, incorrectly installed, or connected to circuits where there were unfortunate and unforeseen effects. This appears to be not just a matter of freak incidents that may or may not have taken place here or there. In a compilation made by the EMF Safety Network, which specializes in EMF and RF precaution, there are at least a couple of dozen smart meter fire reports from Australia to Canada and virtually all regions of the United States, and some of those reports concern a couple of dozen fire incidents. In some cases fires appear to have originated in the meters themselves, in other cases in appliances like microwave ovens or refrigerators (as in the photo above), because of power surges.

    To be sure, those reports are not necessarily going undisputed by local utilities and energy companies. In one instance, for example, California’s PG&E and fire officials have taken issue with an initial report of meter induced fires in Santa Rosa; a short circuit in the distribution system blew out a number of meters, both conventional and two-way, the local fire chief said. On the other hand, just last week Commonwealth Edison of Illinois confirmed three smart meter fires in its operating area, and earlier last month its sibling company Peco Energy suspended smart meter installations in the Mid-Atlantic states after 15 reports of smart meter fires, one in Philadelphia.

    Britain’s Electrical Safety Council considers meters generally a fire hazard, as cables or fuses deteriorate with time, and it has warned electricity users against storing flammable items like rags or paper near electrical intake equipment.
    Obviously all companies with smart meter programs, and all their suppliers and sub-contractors, are going to have to take a close look at the issue of fire hazards. This is just the beginning of a difficult story. Companies installing smart meters already have run into a lot of consumer push-back because of concerns about privacy, security, and–sometimes–higher rather lower electricity costs. The last thing the smart grid needs is meters causing fires.

    http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/the-smarter-grid/smart-meter-fire-reports
    http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/the-smarter-grid/smart-meter-fire-reports

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  16. Larry says:

    Be interested to know, Misters Normand, the recent status of your case if you might share with us?

    Does the Council have new information also? Thank you for your time and effort to bring an enlightened conversation forward.

  17. Warren says:

    @ Larry – Council (AKA The Moronic Convergence) has been given plenty of information on all aspects regarding “smart” meters. Myself and others have seen to that. They have been given enough proof to ban the meters from Sedona under the City’s nuisance ordinance. Unfortunately they are too stupid to understand the issue (one wonders if they even read what we sent them over the past year) and, in a case of the blind leading the blind, their own attorney has told them they lack the authority to ban the meters. It’s not the first time he’s been wrong.

    I do not call them the Moronic Convergence for nothing. They have earned the name. It is what they are. For example when they were discussing “smart” meters (for 10 whole minutes), poor council member Williamson even desperately blurted out, “I can’t decide science!” She should resign in that case since this is not the only issue that involves science. Comments made by the others were almost as painfully bad.

  18. Just Opted out of this as I received a letter today that stated that I was being upgraded to a smart meter and that I would receive a 3 day notification on my door , I called the number on the page and opted out , she tried to convince me to change my mind several times and I still just kept saying I wanted to opt out . She noted my account and opted me out putting my meter installation on permanent hold. She stated that they were working with the corporation commission to get a fee for those who opted out of the program . also that the other devices in my home were much more dangerous than the smart meter I just said yes I would still like to opt out and Thank you . Easy as pie, Do not wait to get a notice, Call right now and opt out .

  19. Charles Lamadrid says:

    APS is currently charging a one-time fee of $50 (+tax) plus a permanent $5 per month fee that is recurring to get your smart meter exchanged with the old-style, analog meter. You can find this information at aps.com by doing a search for “smart meters” and choosing “meter exchange information.” From there you choose “Learn More” at the bottom of the page. Then choose “non-standard meter” and then “Requesting a non-standard meter.”

    Then, read the information provided.

    I went along with the fees because I’m suffering from EMF hypersensitivity and figured it’s small price to pay to try to get healthy again and because I could afford it.

    I don’t know what to tell prospective customers without the funds to afford the exchange. It’s highway robbery, of course, and something should be done about it but, for now, I’m totally invested in my recovery.

    I hope this helps.

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