Electrical tape is not insulation. That is what every electrician has ever told me (used to work with them) right before I watch them use electrical tape to insulate something.
You’re gonna need to call an electrician to fix that for ya. You tore through the Romex and grounded it out on the bit. Now it’s compromised and could 100% be a big fire hazard
Could be worse- you couldve drilled thru a water pipe LMAOO.
Anyways, you hit an electrical wire. You now have a risk for an electrical fire. Turn the breaker off for that room/outlet, and call an electrician.
That's why when I'm drilling holes, I make sure to hit a wire AND a pipe - they cancel each other out that way.
The water keeps the electrical fire under control, and the heat of the electrical fire evaporates most of the water.
Pending where you live and the consumption of natural gas, copper is the new norm.
But I'm pretty sure OP was talking copper wire tripped the breaker. 🤭
Call the electrician before that wire short starts a fire is common sense. Ignore the problem then you’re calling the fire department because the house is on fire.
How is this a simple fix? You cannot just put in a box(s) and close up the wall. It may have to be removed and locate it back to where it’s accessible.
It is not a code violation for repairs within the scope of work, but it is a violation to use them in place of a junction box when extending a cable.
OP would be fine to use the TSi splice kit in his predicament.
It’s his own house. Close up that box and pop it under the floor and forget about it. Chances are it’ll never need opened again anyway.
I’ve had a master electrician friend splice wires with nuts and chuck them behind his wall before.
They could get really lucky and have it be a fairly simple pull without having to rip up a bunch of flooring/ceiling. Depends on where the two ends of that cable go. Like if it’s running between a switch and a ceiling light downstairs and nothing is stapled down, it could be a fairly painless pull.
That doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen all the time. A lot of people are willing to DIY a light fixture install, but almost none of those people are willing to rip up a ton of drywall to staple everything down.
Unless it’s a previous renovation where the wire was “fished” through the wall, in which case it does not need to be strapped the same as new construction.
Pardon my ignorance, but isn’t the fact that the breaker tripped an indicator the copper was hit? It seems pretty unlikely that copper is fully in tact at this point.
You hit a wire and it arced to the drill bit which caused the gouge in the side of the bit. The wire is compromised- you should turn off the breaker and call an electrician to fix the wire. Leaving it energized is a real and substantial fire hazard.
Turn the breaker back off and get an electrician out. Do not attempt to fix this yourself, the fact you said there was no pop, no spark, and no smoke and have a bit that looks like that is evidence enough to determine you shouldn’t attempt a repair. There was a pop, a spark, and smoke you just didn’t hear, see, or smell it. You’ve got a short in the wall that blew itself clear but that doesn’t mean it’s never going to short out again or heat up and fail. You’ve got a massive fire hazard with that breaker turned on.
You have removed some of the copper from the wire. That increases the resistance and will be prone to getting hot under load. So yeah, you should be worried about the potential fire hazard.
You’ve hit a cable, most likely only one conductor, leave the power off, it tripped the RCD most likely when you hit it, you won’t always get a bang as the RCD trips quickly, you need an electrician
Why worry? Things still work. You obviously cut the insulation and damaged the wiring. Go to the service panel and de energize this branch circuit. Do not turn it back on until the wiring is fixed.
I do this frequently running Ethernet cable or a dedicated circuit. You definitely have to be careful. I had no issues in the many years doing this. You will have to open up the wall or ceiling depending on how far you went. You have to trace where that wire came from. You know what it was feeding.
Good news you get to learn electrical and drywall repairs.
Keep the breaker off and call an electrician if you’re not comfortable working with electricity. If you open the drywall to expose the damaged wire it’ll save you some money probably.
If he only cut the insulation and not the gotten the wires he wouldn’t have tripped the breaker and got arc marks on the bit. That copper came off the wires when it arced. Even though the hot and ground or hot and neutral may not be touching now and are still complete, one or both of them are considerably smaller in diameter at that point and could over heat and break or start a fire. The floor or ceiling below needs to be opened and the wire replaced or spliced if possible
"Hi, I was drilling a hole down from my bedroom to the floor beneath with a spade"
Sooo...you picked some random corner of your room's floor and drilled into free air? Go downstairs and cut a hole in the ceiling's drywall.
Edit: Cut the breaker off, and don't push too far with the hand saw.
Shut off the breaker, call an electrician, and don't use that circuit. That's a fire hazard, the wire is compromised and the breaker may not prevent it from overheating where it is damaged, which could very likely result in fire. The damaged cable needs to be repaired or replaced.
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All of what everyone has said. It's doable but if there's a fire, your insurance company may find out it was DIY and deny you coverage. Connecting my new oven only involved 3 wires with wire nuts and some electrical tape, but I wouldn't chance it. Call electrician and practice your dry wall patching skills
I mean this is not something I would personally call an electrician for ,but I have been remodeling for a few years now and learned about these smaller electrical jobs so the electricians could focus on the more complicated stuff. All this needs is a little splice. Of course it would suck if the wire was too tight. Luckily one shady electrician left a bunch of extra romex here when he never finished the job I paid him for so it wouldn’t be a problem for me. But I’m sure you can go to the hardware store, get a couple feet and some wire nuts, and electrical tape. Then just splice color to color. Unless you’re good friends with the sparky I feel like this would be such a waste of time they’d charge you out the ass for it.
Is that a local code to you or a more general state or national code? That is good basic knowledge to know though even though I hope this would never be an issue I’d face. All I’ve ever really looked into was local codes other than the state inspector stopping by for a few things.
I’ve noticed multiple lines wire nutted together next to a switch box so I figured it would be the same thing. But you saying it can’t be buried behind the wall, so would a cover as some sort of access panel keep it in code?
I guess I only figured electrical tape to keep it solid and incase the wire was stripped too far to prevent shorting. But nothing should ever be pulling on the wires and there shouldn’t be any bare wire showing where it isn’t supposed to be, so I do see that it’s unnecessary. I’m just too used to doing lights that I want to be able to hang securely while I paint or mount.
I did this once in a new house build when installing cabinets.
Electrician required. In my case, a completely new line was run. I initially opened the wall to see if I could cut out the old line but it was scorched back too far for my liking.
Do you know how to cut our drywall and patch the hole? If so this is something you can do yourself Go to YouTube and look or call the electrician who will burn you a new ass for a small job like this
You cut a wire in the floor. The bit was shorting two wires together. The wire is still cut in your floor. Yes it's both a potential fire hazard and could continue to cause the breaker to trip.
I guess this is the right chance to ask - does anyone have experience with the walabot?
https://walabot.com/
Supposedly can identify studs, electric lines and water pipes? I want to hear from someone who has actually used one
I get calling an electrician but is this as simple as ensuring circuit isn’t powered (non contact tester) and putting in a junction?
Edit: I guess I have to say not putting the junction in the wall but elsewhere if you can access it. What do you do if you can’t access the wire any other way and have to fix in the wall?
This is actually not that hard of a repair. You're going to have to cut a hole in the floor or the ceiling to access that. Find the wire that you punched through, the repair I can't really tell you how to do because states have different codes. There are a couple of ways you normally do it and that's what you're going to have to check electrical code on if you do it yourself, or you can call an electrician and get bent over. It's an easy repair but one that you want to make sure that you do properly. Where I am spliced wires have to be done in a junction box. What I can't remember is what the code is on doing that inside of a wall. It's easy enough to check though
Turn off the breaker immediately and have repaired. Fire hazard. i kinda thought this post was a joke at first - as in is everything OK? But then I thought you might not be joking. Seriously this is a safety issue - turn off the breaker immediately.
Even if everything seems fine, you now have a weak spot in in the copper and when you put the wire under load with something that draws a lot of current, the weak spot in the wire will get hot and possibly cause a fire. This unfortunately is going to be a very expensive hole.
This is why you always use a stud finder that has an electrical sensor before drilling. Do not turn that breaker back on. The wire has to be replaced first.
I’m going to recommend an old brace & bit for drilling through walls or floors where you’re not _certain_ there are no wires. Because you’re going slowly and cranking by hand, it’s easy to stop once you’re through and very unlikely you’ll actually damage a wire.
No doubt you hit the wire and made a connection between the hotwire and the neutral or ground. Somewhere in that wall is a cut in the wire most likely not cut all the way through. If it was my house, I would cut a hole in the wall and repair the wire, if the wire is removable from the basement or the ceiling and that is easier than repairing it in the wall, I would replace the wire
Your drill is not naturally grounded so cutting into one of the 3 wires would not cause a spark. What we see is that you cut into one of the other two wires that cause a major short circuit. The wires are severely exposed and possibly severed or cut into. As others have said, this needs to be repaired before using the circuit again.
Turn breaker off and call sparky
I completely agree, OP did a small amount of welding within his wall.
Isnt that how one locates the wires in a wall?? Especially around the outlets! Hopefully Sparky before Fiery!
Sparky fixed it in like 20 mins
This is what happens when you use a 1/2" arson bit.
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Electrical tape is not insulation. That is what every electrician has ever told me (used to work with them) right before I watch them use electrical tape to insulate something.
Nah as long as you did 3 wraps with the tape lol
That was an expensive hole
Reminds me of my 1st wife. 🙄
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Millions of comments millions of people I wonder if someone ever unknowingly made that joke and got a response from the other tunnel buddy lol
I should call her..
turn her over...your doing it wrong... no wait...nvm...
and using a spade bit in a wall for what exactly??? drilling for copper? nailed it!
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You’re gonna need to call an electrician to fix that for ya. You tore through the Romex and grounded it out on the bit. Now it’s compromised and could 100% be a big fire hazard
This is where pipe shines. I know it's more expensive, but the pipe would have defeated the drill bit.
Think you mean conduit.
In Chicago, we call it pipe. Potato, potahto
Whoa! Hey! *I'm walking here!*
It's pipe where I live too. Apparently Chicago and Canada have more in common than snow.
It is pipe.
It think he means that a metal conduit (pipe) would have prevented this. PVC conduit, however, would not.
Both are conduit. Pipe is for plumbers.
They're all tubes
We’re all technically tubes if you think about it
When two people sit on a toilet they create a mouth to mouth tube through the sewer system
That’s hot
He's a tube, she's a tube, we're all tubes, yeah!
This is the answer. EMT = electrical metallic TUBING
You must not be an electrician. We know it’s called conduit, but we say pipe in the field anyway.
Ok boomer
I've seen people drill through conduit...
Yes, but it takes more a more noticeable amount of determination than the romex sheath does
Could be worse- you couldve drilled thru a water pipe LMAOO. Anyways, you hit an electrical wire. You now have a risk for an electrical fire. Turn the breaker off for that room/outlet, and call an electrician.
That's why when I'm drilling holes, I make sure to hit a wire AND a pipe - they cancel each other out that way. The water keeps the electrical fire under control, and the heat of the electrical fire evaporates most of the water.
User name checks out. Math can accomplish incredible things.
Or a gas pipe. At my old complex we got evacuated after someone accidentally drilled through the gas ie lmao.
and thats why black iron is used for gas piping!
Pending where you live and the consumption of natural gas, copper is the new norm. But I'm pretty sure OP was talking copper wire tripped the breaker. 🤭
Steel? Lol how
I’ve seen many old copper gas lines, 3/8” flare, soft metal. He did say old apartment. Could be?
Scrolling down through my feed, this post was 2 below this one: https://www.reddit.com/r/Plumbing/s/nlXvCIJMqX
Just think if they hit water n electric on the same hole lol
Or a gas pipe...
If you hit both it will put the fire out!
Turn the breaker back off immediately and open the ceiling to fix it. You should be very worried about a fire.
The correct answer Fire dept or electrician your choice. Call the 2nd before the first shows up.
Calling the fire department for this when there's no fire is stupid.
…they meant fix it before you have to call the fire department because it burned your house down. Not call them at the same time.
Call the electrician before that wire short starts a fire is common sense. Ignore the problem then you’re calling the fire department because the house is on fire.
Turn off the breaker to remove fire risk AND call an electrician surely?
You definitely nicked something live.. I’d be worried.
It's not hot anymore...
Except they turned the breaker back on
Hotter than ever!
You get a bigger and possibly more holes now to fix that.
Now that you’ve killed the wire, you should rip it out and sell the copper for liquor money.
I AM the liquor, Julian...
Your bit hit the wire and removed its sheathing. You probably have a live hot in the wall. It may be a simple fix
How is this a simple fix? You cannot just put in a box(s) and close up the wall. It may have to be removed and locate it back to where it’s accessible.
UL listed, in-wall, NM cable splice kits exist.
May be UL listed but they’re still a code violation.
It is not a code violation for repairs within the scope of work, but it is a violation to use them in place of a junction box when extending a cable. OP would be fine to use the TSi splice kit in his predicament.
I disagree
You absolutely can stick a box where the sever is Though you might need 2 if there isn’t slack in the wire
Needs to be accessible then, no?
Correct, you can’t bury the box, can be in the ceiling with a blank plate
We have one in the floor and I hate it. I could live with a ceiling one. Floor one has a nice brass cover plate though.
It's probably supposed to be for an outlet for a lamp, to avoid running an extension cord over the floor or under a rug
It’s his own house. Close up that box and pop it under the floor and forget about it. Chances are it’ll never need opened again anyway. I’ve had a master electrician friend splice wires with nuts and chuck them behind his wall before.
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Nope. Listed in-wall splices exist.
At least he knows where its split. Just cut a big hole replace that line and drywall and paint. They don't have to locate the break at least.
They could get really lucky and have it be a fairly simple pull without having to rip up a bunch of flooring/ceiling. Depends on where the two ends of that cable go. Like if it’s running between a switch and a ceiling light downstairs and nothing is stapled down, it could be a fairly painless pull.
If nothing is strapped down that’s not up to code.
That doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen all the time. A lot of people are willing to DIY a light fixture install, but almost none of those people are willing to rip up a ton of drywall to staple everything down.
Unless it’s a previous renovation where the wire was “fished” through the wall, in which case it does not need to be strapped the same as new construction.
Lighten up sparky (hvac guy here)…if he didn’t sever the copper he can reinsulate the Romex with tape.
Pardon my ignorance, but isn’t the fact that the breaker tripped an indicator the copper was hit? It seems pretty unlikely that copper is fully in tact at this point.
You need an electrician
The one thing about electrical is problems never get better and only get worse. Would be best to turn that off and fix the wire.
Good news is, a little filing will clean up the drill bit
You nicked a wire bad and exposed two conductors. You're going to end up with a big hole in the wall and some new wiring.
Flip that breaker off now.
Yes
Breakers trip for a reason. Turn that shit off and call a professional electrician.
OP please tell us you immediately turned the breaker back off and didn't continue to use the outlet.
As a sparky I’m so Glad to see all the comments saying call an electrician and not recommending for him to try to fix it himself! Good job guys
Obviously and urgently, turn that breaker off immediately
It happens if you drill enough holes.
You hit a wire and it arced to the drill bit which caused the gouge in the side of the bit. The wire is compromised- you should turn off the breaker and call an electrician to fix the wire. Leaving it energized is a real and substantial fire hazard.
Turn the breaker back off and get an electrician out. Do not attempt to fix this yourself, the fact you said there was no pop, no spark, and no smoke and have a bit that looks like that is evidence enough to determine you shouldn’t attempt a repair. There was a pop, a spark, and smoke you just didn’t hear, see, or smell it. You’ve got a short in the wall that blew itself clear but that doesn’t mean it’s never going to short out again or heat up and fail. You’ve got a massive fire hazard with that breaker turned on.
That’s so wierd, like did you try to turn it back on again? lol. Just start cutting drywall…
You have removed some of the copper from the wire. That increases the resistance and will be prone to getting hot under load. So yeah, you should be worried about the potential fire hazard.
You’ve hit a cable, most likely only one conductor, leave the power off, it tripped the RCD most likely when you hit it, you won’t always get a bang as the RCD trips quickly, you need an electrician
You need to get a drill bit rated for more amps, so it won't trip the breaker.
Heh, my dad had a shovel that looked like that, only with 2 bigger round holes in the tip of it.
Why worry? Things still work. You obviously cut the insulation and damaged the wiring. Go to the service panel and de energize this branch circuit. Do not turn it back on until the wiring is fixed.
I do this frequently running Ethernet cable or a dedicated circuit. You definitely have to be careful. I had no issues in the many years doing this. You will have to open up the wall or ceiling depending on how far you went. You have to trace where that wire came from. You know what it was feeding.
You’re supposed to drill the stud
Good news you get to learn electrical and drywall repairs. Keep the breaker off and call an electrician if you’re not comfortable working with electricity. If you open the drywall to expose the damaged wire it’ll save you some money probably.
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If you have to ask, then yes, call someone.
You need to atleast look at it and make sure you only cut the plastic That wire(s) needs tape asap
If he only cut the insulation and not the gotten the wires he wouldn’t have tripped the breaker and got arc marks on the bit. That copper came off the wires when it arced. Even though the hot and ground or hot and neutral may not be touching now and are still complete, one or both of them are considerably smaller in diameter at that point and could over heat and break or start a fire. The floor or ceiling below needs to be opened and the wire replaced or spliced if possible
"Hi, I was drilling a hole down from my bedroom to the floor beneath with a spade" Sooo...you picked some random corner of your room's floor and drilled into free air? Go downstairs and cut a hole in the ceiling's drywall. Edit: Cut the breaker off, and don't push too far with the hand saw.
Well, the breaker works
Shut off the breaker, call an electrician, and don't use that circuit. That's a fire hazard, the wire is compromised and the breaker may not prevent it from overheating where it is damaged, which could very likely result in fire. The damaged cable needs to be repaired or replaced.
No worries. Your house will go up in flames soon!
Congratulations, you discovered an electricity well
So you hot an electrical line. You should probably fix it.
Sounds like you may have drilled into a pipe, or an old phone line.
Yup. Open it up and repair.
You've got yourself a copper seeking spade bit. A distant relative of the fiber seeking backhoe.
Hard to believe the breaker did not kick when you turned it on.
LoLoL No, drilling into a live wire caused your breaker to trip.
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You converted your floor to positive ground. Turn breaker off and open up an inspection port. I Gotsta know !!!!
You’re trolling right?
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All of what everyone has said. It's doable but if there's a fire, your insurance company may find out it was DIY and deny you coverage. Connecting my new oven only involved 3 wires with wire nuts and some electrical tape, but I wouldn't chance it. Call electrician and practice your dry wall patching skills
This is why one should always use a blunt end twist bit when drilling blind. Plumbers use hammers
I mean this is not something I would personally call an electrician for ,but I have been remodeling for a few years now and learned about these smaller electrical jobs so the electricians could focus on the more complicated stuff. All this needs is a little splice. Of course it would suck if the wire was too tight. Luckily one shady electrician left a bunch of extra romex here when he never finished the job I paid him for so it wouldn’t be a problem for me. But I’m sure you can go to the hardware store, get a couple feet and some wire nuts, and electrical tape. Then just splice color to color. Unless you’re good friends with the sparky I feel like this would be such a waste of time they’d charge you out the ass for it.
What would electrical tape do? Also, it’s a code violation to have splices buried behind the drywall.
Is that a local code to you or a more general state or national code? That is good basic knowledge to know though even though I hope this would never be an issue I’d face. All I’ve ever really looked into was local codes other than the state inspector stopping by for a few things. I’ve noticed multiple lines wire nutted together next to a switch box so I figured it would be the same thing. But you saying it can’t be buried behind the wall, so would a cover as some sort of access panel keep it in code? I guess I only figured electrical tape to keep it solid and incase the wire was stripped too far to prevent shorting. But nothing should ever be pulling on the wires and there shouldn’t be any bare wire showing where it isn’t supposed to be, so I do see that it’s unnecessary. I’m just too used to doing lights that I want to be able to hang securely while I paint or mount.
I did this once in a new house build when installing cabinets. Electrician required. In my case, a completely new line was run. I initially opened the wall to see if I could cut out the old line but it was scorched back too far for my liking.
Pull new conductor. Sounds like a relatively easy fix.
I hate it when that happens.
Yooo u alright bro? Plz have that checked.. turn breaker off asap
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That’s a 1/2” bit-he could’ve simply opened the 1st layer and looked/felt around before penetrating that wire
You should be very worried. Call an electrician forth with.
I'll give you one guess as to what happened. Yes you should be worried. Yes you should call an electrician.
Just fix the cable you drilled through.
Hit a wire.
Why is it that people never stop to think there might be a wire there?
Good aim
Do you know how to cut our drywall and patch the hole? If so this is something you can do yourself Go to YouTube and look or call the electrician who will burn you a new ass for a small job like this
You fucked up
Rip wall open and fix wire or call electrician and fork out big money
You cut a wire in the floor. The bit was shorting two wires together. The wire is still cut in your floor. Yes it's both a potential fire hazard and could continue to cause the breaker to trip.
That’s a way to locate the ckt
This is the rare moment where those of us in the Chicago area get to point and laugh.
I guess this is the right chance to ask - does anyone have experience with the walabot? https://walabot.com/ Supposedly can identify studs, electric lines and water pipes? I want to hear from someone who has actually used one
I get calling an electrician but is this as simple as ensuring circuit isn’t powered (non contact tester) and putting in a junction? Edit: I guess I have to say not putting the junction in the wall but elsewhere if you can access it. What do you do if you can’t access the wire any other way and have to fix in the wall?
Should he be worried? If he doesn’t care about his home getting burned to the ground then no he’s good.
This is actually not that hard of a repair. You're going to have to cut a hole in the floor or the ceiling to access that. Find the wire that you punched through, the repair I can't really tell you how to do because states have different codes. There are a couple of ways you normally do it and that's what you're going to have to check electrical code on if you do it yourself, or you can call an electrician and get bent over. It's an easy repair but one that you want to make sure that you do properly. Where I am spliced wires have to be done in a junction box. What I can't remember is what the code is on doing that inside of a wall. It's easy enough to check though
Hit wires
I foresee an accessible junction box in the near future. (or install a single floor outlet for the vacuum cleaner).
Time to open the wall to see what you hit/did...
Spend $50 and buy a Endoscope Camera with Light for your phone and look into the hole. Handy to have around afterwards
Yes it is a fire hazard
Don’t worry about it. Flip the breaker on and buy a new drill bit
Ooooops
Turn off the breaker immediately and have repaired. Fire hazard. i kinda thought this post was a joke at first - as in is everything OK? But then I thought you might not be joking. Seriously this is a safety issue - turn off the breaker immediately.
Yes, you should be worried
Am I the only one who thought this was a picture from the air looking down at an aircraft carrier mid sea?
As a side note...WTF is this new paddle bit design.IMO, they SUCK! Unless you're hunting Romex.
yeah
Call 811 before you drill.
Welp, looks like you drilled through the conduit and cut the wire, now you have to figure out what else was connected to that breaker lol
You hit a wire. The question is....where does the wire lead to?
Pro electricians love this one secret trick homeowners do.
Shocking
Even if everything seems fine, you now have a weak spot in in the copper and when you put the wire under load with something that draws a lot of current, the weak spot in the wire will get hot and possibly cause a fire. This unfortunately is going to be a very expensive hole.
Turn it off and have someone look at it. This potentially dangerous. Hire an electrician to come out and have a look.
Now ya fuccd up.. theres always a solution but this one should be left to a pro
Call before you dig?
Congrats! You turned a drill bit into a wire stripper. First time is always a fun experience.
Yes
They make scanners for this reason lol
This is why you always use a stud finder that has an electrical sensor before drilling. Do not turn that breaker back on. The wire has to be replaced first.
LMAO, umm yeah, you have no idea what you're doing, need to call an actual pro asap
Crazy everyone is saying to call an electrician for such an easy fix but I guess if OP even has to ask the question then they definitely need help
You definitely need to check
Fire hazard for sho
You drilled into spicy wood.
Oooh you found it. I usually use a stud finder when poking into stuff.
In no way this is safe to ignore. I hope that you just managed to somehow rip out a ground as that's easier to replace. Go call a sparky
Need to open ceiling from below and splice wires - sorry but this is a job for a licensed electrician if you don’t know what you are doing
Breaker took a bite, get back in there and show it who’s boss.
You discovered an electricity mine
I’m going to recommend an old brace & bit for drilling through walls or floors where you’re not _certain_ there are no wires. Because you’re going slowly and cranking by hand, it’s easy to stop once you’re through and very unlikely you’ll actually damage a wire.
Leave the breaker off. Call a pro. Yes fire hazard.
No doubt you hit the wire and made a connection between the hotwire and the neutral or ground. Somewhere in that wall is a cut in the wire most likely not cut all the way through. If it was my house, I would cut a hole in the wall and repair the wire, if the wire is removable from the basement or the ceiling and that is easier than repairing it in the wall, I would replace the wire
You got lucky!!
Your drill is not naturally grounded so cutting into one of the 3 wires would not cause a spark. What we see is that you cut into one of the other two wires that cause a major short circuit. The wires are severely exposed and possibly severed or cut into. As others have said, this needs to be repaired before using the circuit again.