There a quite a few such large wind turbines in Germany. As the technology is still rather new and developing fast it is normal that there a few failures and some of them are spectacular.
New?
I did a research project on wind turbines, that was almost 10 years back.
But wind turbines have been around since the 80s and 90s.
I don't call that new anymore.
There are plenty of accidents with wind turbines though:
http://www.caithnesswindfarms.co.uk/AccidentStatistics.htm
Looks like the death rate is higher than the nuclear industry.
The whole issue with nuclear power plants is purely based on subjective fears, blown up b the media by people who are completely ignorant about the subject (NOFI)
If you look at the facts the amount of accidents compared to any other type of energy plant is extremely small.
There is not a single physicists I know of, who is saying it is bad in any way.
Only the nuclear waste is a tiny bit tricky to handle, but if you wait for a few years, it's totally gone.
A lot of physicists I know are also very skeptic about wind energy.
I even did a ton of calculations myself, and (very unfortunately) you just can't get away with wind turbines and solar farms.
It's also very far from being CO2 neutral, since all these need to be backed up by smaller gas turbines (at this moment).
Bear in mind that being skeptical doesn't mean not believing in it, there is always an opening to debates.
As always, I never understand when new "hip" technologies are being put underneath a big magnifying glass.
By definition every solution has its pros and cons and accidents will happen.
Put if you want to compare them, compare them fair, which is unfortunately seldom be done properly.
I haven't seen anything spectacular about this "news" item.
In fact, in the older days wind turbines were way worse, since they didn't have an automatic braking system.
So it wasn't that uncommon that they caught on fire completely.
What would be the solution?
Well, if you just do some math, I think the only harsh solution is, cutting half of the population.
On top of that using A LOT less energy than we do at this moment.
Unfortunately that goes right against many people morals and economic believes.
In the end everything will settle to some kind of equilibrium eventually.
It's just a matter of time.