Power outage plunges Mercer Street into darkness, disrupting traffic, Bluefield WV
Road ClosurePower outage plunges Mercer Street area into darkness, disabling traffic lights with over 1,100 affected; responders patrol to check for hazards.
Audio|Source: Mercer County Public Safety and WV State Police
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Transcript:
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So just be advised, we've got some reported power outages on Stafford and over on Mercer, in case these alarms are going off.
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Danforth, thank you.
00:16
Control, we're on Mercer Street currently from about 4th Street to 8th Street; Mercer Street power's out.
00:27
We're going to continue to 9th and Harrison to check for a transformer and then we're going to make our way to Lazenby.
00:36
Just advise the PD.
00:38
The power's out; the red lights are out.
00:41
They come through here just to be careful.
00:43
It's pretty hard.
00:45
Yeah, we've just advised about the outage.
00:48
I'm looking at the AEP map.
00:50
They're showing there are over 1,100 customers out.
00:54
It's got the whole area from Low Gap Road to Minnesota Rogers Street out.
01:02
Yeah, 104 control.
01:04
We're on Harrison now and I don't see any sparking for a good place.
01:11
We're going to keep heading toward Lazenby and see how far cases extend.
01:15
TN4.
01:18
Control, however, as of now I'm not seeing any transformers sparking.
01:23
Go.
01:28
58 back of station.
01:31
Okay.
01:34
Thirty-three control.
01:36
Thirty-three.
01:42
Control, we rode by the power station on Lazenby.
01:46
We didn't see anything out of the normal.
01:48
We're going to go back tonight and just double-check for transformer sparks.
01:53
Got me.
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