More than 80 thousand people were left without electricity after a transformerexploded in an SRP substation in East Mesa, drawing fire and fromMesa of the crews of Phoenix and worked at least two other substationsthroughout, the city where the power was transferred during the fire.
Road signs of interruption affected in many of the intersections of andalso reached businesses and offices of the city in the center of the table. Otherparts of the city experiencing blackouts of intermittent electricity androlling. The affected areas are predominantly Dobson Roadto the East of the city limits and 60 for the United States border northerncity.
"It is not with any increase in heat-related incidentsdue to power cuts," Police spokesman of EdwardWessing of Sgt said.
Police officers were directing traffic on majorintersections and two collisions were reported. Signs of Darktraffic should be treated as a stop, according to topolice signals.
The community of the Salt River Pima Maricopa India has power alsoexperienced. The city of Fountain Hills said that he address notified by emergency management departmentthat of SRP in Maricopa County announced possible blackouts successive in transformer fire response tothe table.
The courts began minutes after the fire in theThunderstone, according to the substation SRP spokesman Scott Harelson. He said that the disturbances could rise due to the demand for energy in the heat of thesummer.
"We had some degree of trust that customers do not beimpacted by the fire, but after he joined othersubstations, the energy that they overwhelmed and began to extinguish toprotect," said Harelson. "We are working very hard torestore the power of customers".
With SRP, one of the four transformersexploded of the substation at 11: 40 hours on Thursday, causing rising black smoke for miles until the installation of theintersection power road and University Drive East ofRed Mountain Park. The smoke originated from burning mineraloil circulating in transformers to keep them fresh, according to Jeff Lane, a spokesman for the SRP. The three remainingtransformers were closed to protect them and ascrews firefighters faced a difficult situation with a fire that could not beput out with water.
In less than 30 minutes, customers in the East and northeastportions de Mesa and Apache Junction flooded customer complaints servicelines SRP.
Crews of firefighters had doused the fire with foam of a specialized truck.Crews Extinguidas in little more than an hour, Harelsonsaid.
The cause of the explosion was unknown and SRP onscene crews were working to restore power to customers. Officials have said that I wasnot even thinking known when restores food and that could be foras long as three hours or more.
"The explosion could have been caused by heat, we don ' tknow, however," Lane said. "Sometimes, transformer explosions arecaused by failures of equipment." "You have some exhausted do hows amount of oil that was in thatcools of power transformer outside".
Then a small mobile home to the substation was destroyed and fire caused by the explosion, said Lane.
After cleaning, SRP replace the transformer for costsabout $ 4 million and carry out an investigation into what caused the feat ITTO. Harelson said the investigation should take in twoweeks.
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