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| Power outage in Lake Forest Park |
A neighborhood in Lake Forest Park was startled by the sound of an electrical transformer blowing this afternoon, Monday, September 29, 2014.
City Light at first thought it was tree branches falling on a line, the usual cause of power outages in our area, but after a crew came out they were unable to find the cause.
Our reporter talked to one of the
lineman (the spotter on the ground) and he says they couldn't find
any wires that looked damaged, or any animals or anything that may
have shorted the transformer or any of the lines on it.
They
disconnected eight houses from the transformer and replaced the fuse
to make sure the transformer wasn't bad. That worked so they undid
the fuse, attached all the houses and re-installed the fuse and
everything worked normally. The lineman said this is the
scariest kind because they don't know if the fuse is going to blow
again as soon as they hook it up, or blow in an hour etc.
The power went back online uneventfully and stayed on, so the problem has apparently been resolved.
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