WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — Days after a transformer caught fire at a Pepco substation in Northwest D.C., hundreds of customers in the Dupont Circle neighborhood are still experiencing power outages.
Shortly after midnight, on July 17, the D.C. Fire and EMS Department was dispatched to the Pepco substation in the 2140 N St. NW for a fire. A Twinned Agent Unit extinguished the transformer inside the substation, and no injuries were reported.
However, the issues had begun Tuesday night, when two feeder cables tripped, one at 11th and Clinton streets NW, and the other at 11th and Monroe Streets NW. Despite no customers seeing impacts in either of these incidents, another failure occurred Wednesday night, sparking the 22nd Street substation fire.
About 1,800 customers were left without power in the Dupont Circle and West End areas Thursday morning, per DC News Now’s previous coverage. However, Pepco restored power to most customers by Thursday afternoon.
Despite this, service disruptions continued to be an issue. On the morning of Sunday, July 20, a power line feeding the 22nd Street substation tripped again, prompting Pepco to turn off the power for hundreds of customers to “help avoid further impact at the substation” and prevent a larger outage.
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