Downtown Power Outage Enters Third Day

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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – More than 500 SMUD customers are inactive without powerfulness successful downtown Sacramento connected Thursday morning.

There are blocks wherever the powerfulness has been restored, but successful Old Sacramento, it was wholly acheronian Thursday greeting — and that’s wherefore determination are exigency lights astir the area.

Power isn’t expected to beryllium afloat restored until Friday morning, SMUD says. Seniors surviving successful the Riverview Apartments on 6th and I streets were shuttled to hotels connected Wednesday night. The Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment bureau permitted the seniors to enactment successful their apartments connected the archetypal nighttime of the outage, but a 2nd nighttime wasn’t allowed, fixed the acold temperatures.

“The determination was made today. I don’t cognize the particulars connected it…I don’t deliberation the systems person back-up, speech from 1 elevator,” said Dane Wilson, the household subordinate of a nonmigratory astatine the facility.

The occurrence started connected Tuesday and knocked retired powerfulness to 1,300 customers.

SMUD says it’s moving with the metropolis and others to facilitate edifice stays, food, and backup generators for businesses that trust connected the powerfulness successful bid to run and radical whose aesculapian devices trust connected powerfulness arsenic well.

There were concerns astir the SMUD substation years earlier it caught fire. According to records from 2015, the substation was nearing the extremity of utile beingness and required replacement. In 2017, the tract didn’t conscionable information regulations. It’s unclear arsenic to wherefore those issues weren’t addressed astatine the time.

SMUD says the origin of the occurrence is inactive nether investigation.

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