Actually my area had a transformer fire at a residential substation (not a peaker plant, but same infrastructure) about three years ago. And... the instructions were exactly the same! Apparently it smelled bad within a quarter mile, put a ton of soot in the air (apparently from the cooling oil burning), and was on the nightly news. And until this thread I hadn't bothered to remember it. I doubt many do.

Come on. Stuff breaks, things burn. We don't want it to burn. We should take reasonable action to make sure it's engineered not to burn. But if it happens to burn? Meh. Let's not lose our shit about it and start banning critically important technology, OK?