Hundreds without power after transformer blows in downtown San Diego

SAN DIEGO – A whole bunch in San Diego are with out energy tonight after the explosion of a transformer within the downtown space, authorities mentioned.

In response to officers with the San Diego Police Division, a name got here in simply round 9 p.m. Saturday reporting {that a} transformer had blown underground within the space of seventh Avenue and Ok Avenue. Presently, police have shut down seventh Avenue and L Avenue, sixth Avenue and Ok Avenue, and 4th Avenue and Market Avenue.

Officers on the scene inform FOX 5 that the San Diego Marriott Gaslamp Quarter has misplaced its energy and that police and hearth officers are working to revive energy to the resort and surrounding companies and houses.

FOX 5’s Jason Sloss spoke with a consultant from the San Diego Hearth Division who mentioned that Marriott staff had referred to as in a construction hearth exterior, which later turned out to be flames coming from a manhole overlaying the location the place the transformer had exploded.

In response to SDG&E, greater than 1100 clients are with out energy throughout Middle Metropolis, Balboa Park, Golden Hills, Logan Heights, Mountain View and Lincoln Park.

No phrase but on what brought on the transformer to blow up.

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