Petersburg Municipal Power and Light crew, with help from Mattingly Electric, LLC, work to replace the blown transformer on Excel Street on Wednesday afternoon.
A power outage affected downtown Petersburg on Wed., July 10 from around 10:30 a.m. until around noon.
The outage was caused by a transformer failing in its vault located in the sidewalk on Excel Street near the Hammer & Wikan Hardware store, Petersburg Utility Director Karl Hagerman told the Pilot.
Smoke was observed coming out of the sidewalk vault after the transformer's failure, causing some concern to bystanders.
The power went out when the transformer fault tripped the breaker for the circuit that feeds power to most of the core of Petersburg.
"[Power and Light] isolated the Hammer and W...
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