More than 5,000 without power in downtown Des Moines Sunday morning
More than 5,000 without power in downtown Des Moines Sunday morning
KCCI EIGHT NEWS STARTS WITH BREAKING NEWS. GOOD MORNING. WE ARE TRACKING A LARGE POWER OUTAGE IN DOWNTOWN DES MOINES RIGHT NOW. WE HAVE ACTUALLY JUST HEARD THAT IN THE LAST FEW MINUTES OR SO, THAT’S BEEN DOWNGRADED FROM 5000 PEOPLE WITHOUT POWER TO JUST 1700 CUSTOMERS WITHOUT POWER, MOSTLY ON THE SOUTHWEST SIDE OF DOWNTOWN. NOW, THIS ALL STARTED AROUND 745 THIS MORNING, JUST A FEW MINUTES BEFORE THEN, DES MOINES POLICE SAY A MAN CLIMBED OVER THE FENCE AT A SUBSTATION NEAR 16TH STREET AND MLK. THEY SAY HE DAMAGED SOME EQUIPMENT, CAUSING THE OUTAGE. POLICE SAY WHEN THEY ARRIVED, THEY FOUND THE MAN NAKED AND BADLY BURNED. THEY HAD. THEY DID TAKE HIM TO A HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT. THERE IS NO ESTIMATED TIME OF RESTORATION FOR POWER, BUT LIKE I SAID, WE ARE SEEING SOME OF THAT COME BACK ON RIGHT NOW. STILL, JUST 1700 OF YOU WITHOUT POWER AS YOU’RE WAKING UP THIS MORNING. AS SOON AS WE LEARN WHEN YOUR POWER WILL BE BACK ON, WE WILL MAKE SURE TO UPDATE YOU ON KCCI AND ON THE KCCI MOBILE APP. AND WE ACTUALLY SAW THIS POWER OUTAGE HAPPEN IN REAL TIME FROM THE STUDIO. DAVID. WE SAW THE WHITE FLASH LIGHT UP THE SKY CAM, AND THEN WE COULD ACTUALLY HEAR. I’M NOT SURE IF YOU CALLED IT AN EXPLOSION OR JUST A LOUD BOOMING NOISE. WE COULD HEAR IT FROM HERE IN THE STUDIO. YEAH, WE CERTAINLY COULD. IT WAS A LOUD THUMP. I ACTUALLY SAW THE FLASH BEHIND YOU, AND I WAS REALLY CONFUSED ABOUT WHAT W
More than 5,000 without power in downtown Des Moines Sunday morning
More than 5,000 people woke up in downtown Des Moines without power Sunday morning. Police are investigating a trespasser who damaged equipment at a sub station.This started around 5:45 a.m. Sunday when Des Moines Police say a man climbed over the fence at a sub station near 16th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway. They say he damaged some equipment at the sub station, which caused the outage. Police say when their officers arrived, they found the man naked and badly burned. He was taken to a hospital for treatment. Some customers saw their power restored shortly before 7:30 a.m. No timeline for restoration has been provided for the remaining 1,700 customers without power.
More than 5,000 people woke up in downtown Des Moines without power Sunday morning. Police are investigating a trespasser who damaged equipment at a sub station.
This started around 5:45 a.m. Sunday when Des Moines Police say a man climbed over the fence at a sub station near 16th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway.
They say he damaged some equipment at the sub station, which caused the outage.
Police say when their officers arrived, they found the man naked and badly burned. He was taken to a hospital for treatment.
Some customers saw their power restored shortly before 7:30 a.m. No timeline for restoration has been provided for the remaining 1,700 customers without power.