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Last Saturday morning a transformer malfunctioned at the White House which caused smoke to pour into the

building forcing many to evacuate. What caused it though?

From KTLA 5:

The West Wing of the White House was evacuated early Saturday morning after smoke poured into the building.

“Early this am, an electrical transformer near the West Wing malfunctioned and set off a smoke alarm in the West Wing,” the White House said in a statement.

“The transformer problem was quickly resolved. Electricity and personnel access to the West Wing has returned to normal. The First Family was unaffected.”

Reporters and photographers were evacuated from the press room just before 6 a.m. and were allowed to return about an hour later, according to media reports.

I’m not an electrician, so I decided to look up what would cause a transformer to explode. This is from EHow:

Transformers explode when an electric power line running to a transformer suddenly transmits far too much electricity for the circuits within the transformer to process. The most common way that this can happen is during a lightning strike. There are automatic shutoffs within the transformer when too much power reaches it. They turn off within 60 milliseconds of having detected an energy spike; unfortunately, this is about 5 times too slow to do any good. The extra electricity heats up and melts the circuit. The circuits are made to be heat resistant and are kept cool by several gallons of refined mineral oil in a closed chamber. Despite this, the circuit becomes red hot and fails in a shower of electrical sparks, superheating and igniting the mineral oil. The mineral oil combusts explosively, causing a loud bang and sending metal shrapnel that was once the transformer scything everywhere.

Seeing as how no lightning was reported in the area, where did the abrupt power surge come from? Was it because people in the White House were busily running every shredder available to get rid of any Benghazi documents that they could?

Even if that wasn’t the case, would a transformer blowing up create so much smoke that it would cause an evacuation? Perhaps documents were being burned, and the smoke got into the ventilation system?

Even if none of this was the case, having a transformer malfunction with smoke causing an evacuation of the White House on the same day that damning evidence in regards to Benghazi was released is quite the coincidence don’t you think?

What do you think? Let us know in the comments.

[EDIT] Fox News reports that only the press room was evacuated, and the incident happened Saturday morning.

From Fox News:

Reporters and photographers were evacuated briefly from the West Wing of the White House early Saturday because of smoke from an overheated transformer in a mechanical room.

U.S. Secret Service spokesman Max Milien said that at about 7 a.m., smoke was seen coming from a mechanical room closet on the first floor.

So only reporters were evacuated? Convenient…



[Via Mainwashed.com]