Quote Originally Posted by schuylergrace View Post
Others I've seen like this were the result of lightning strikes. The fact that two of them are on fire would seem to bear that out as a possibility. Also, the wind appears to be blowing a pretty good clip, so there could be a storm involved. Maybe, a two-mode failure--lightning takes out some critical system, allowing the turbine to spin ungoverned. That could be why the closer one is spinning, but the farther one is not.
It looks like the further one has a blade missing?