City Hall Acting As Shelter For Downtown Sacramento Residents Evacuated Due To Power Outage

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — City hallway was acting arsenic a structure for residents evacuated from respective downtown Sacramento buildings aft a occurrence astatine a SMUD substation resulted successful a monolithic powerfulness outage Tuesday.

The country was astatine the substation adjacent H and 7th streets, adjacent to the historical Old Folsom Powerhouse. the powerfulness outage affected everything wrong a six-block radius.

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The City of Sacramento said aged residents of a Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency (SHRA) gathering were evacuated arsenic galore necessitate ventilators to breathe. Additionally, different high-rise buildings successful the country with occurrence suppression systems that necessitate powerfulness to run were besides evacuated.

While astir are being offered structure astatine metropolis hall, the metropolis said the astir susceptible evacuees are being placed successful motels by the SHRA.

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Sacramento Regional Transit is providing proscription for evacuees. However, SacRT said airy rails successful the downtown country would not beryllium operating Tuesday nighttime owed to the powerfulness outage.

The metropolis besides said the Sacramento County Office of Emergency Services and the Red Cross are offering assistance and enactment during this time.

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SMUD Tuesday day said powerfulness is not expected to beryllium restored until astatine slightest Wednesday.

CBS13 Staff