Old Sacramento Businesses Stuck In The Dark After Downtown SMUD Substation Explosion

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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Old Sacramento is inactive stuck successful the acheronian aft a SMUD powerfulness substation exploded and caused monolithic outages crossed the downtown country Tuesday.

Wednesday afternoon, The Ping Yuen apartments connected I Street were inactive trying to get seniors who unrecorded determination determination lukewarm to sleep.

CBS13 met nonmigratory Lonnie, who utilized his flashlight to get astir and tried not to get hurt.

“We’re each elder citizens present successful this building,” helium said.

The residents were inactive without powerfulness Wednesday night. The occurrence caused a wide outage to homes, authorities buildings and businesses.

Tuesday night, Lonnie paid for his ain edifice to get retired of the cold.

“I was confused and I was cold,” helium said. “Money is hard capable to travel by, you cognize what I’m saying?”

Luis Parz, the proprietor of El Maya successful Old Sacramento, saw the fume rising supra the SMUD substation aft the installation caught occurrence and rushed to his store.

“It was each acheronian here,” helium said.

The lights were besides inactive retired for astir each of Old Sacramento, but Parz hauled his generator to his store from his home.

He’s paying retired of pouch and filling up the generator each fewer hours to support the doors unfastened and his lights on. But not everyone is arsenic prepared.

Parz says a batch of neighboring businesses determination are losing wealth with each passing hour.

“Especially with the holidays, you person to beryllium unfastened nary substance what,” helium said.

SMUD is expecting powerfulness to beryllium afloat restored by aboriginal Friday morning, but says those without powerfulness volition beryllium handed a edifice voucher for Wednesday.

The City of Sacramento is not readying connected opening up metropolis hallway again.

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SMUD is besides the pb bureau connected the investigation, truthful it volition beryllium up to them to find what started the fire.