5-year-old boy fatally shocked in Mishawaka
MISHAWAKA, INDIANA - Police say a 5-year-old Mishawaka boy was fatally shocked when he crawled into an electrical transformer between two apartment complexes.
Mishawaka police say Izaya Michael Baiz-Hickey was shocked about 5 p.m. November 27 when he grabbed electrical circuitry inside the electrical transformer box.
Assistant Police Chief Michael Samp said he didn't know whether the box was locked.
Samp says the department was still investigating the boy's death, which he called one of the most horrible things he's ever seen in his law enforcement career.
The accident happened between the Williamsburg on the Lake and Carriage House apartment complexes in the city just east of South Bend.
Related News
Alberta shift from coal to cleaner energy
EDMONTON - The turn of the calendar to 2018 saw TransAlta retire one of its coal power generating units at its Sundance plant west of Edmonton and mothball another as it begins the transition to cleaner sources of energy.
The company will say goodbye to three more units over the next year and a half to prepare them for conversion to natural gas.
This is part of a fundamental shift in Alberta, which will see coal power completely eliminated by 2030, replaced by a mix of natural gas and renewable sources.
“We’re going to see that transition continue right up…
