Power restored to hundreds in Durham after person gets stuck in elevator, traffic lights out

More than 2,000 customers were left without power near downtown Durham Tuesday morning. At 8:30 a.m., power had been restored to most customers.

According to Duke Energy’s outage map, the outage was first reported around 5:30 a.m. and was impacting multiple areas near Durham’s city center and Durham Central Park, including Geer Street, Hunt Street, East Main Street and Pettigrew Street.

At 8:30 a.m., only about 400 customers were without power in the area.

Before power was restored, fire crews at the scene told WRAL News someone was trapped in an elevator at the BullHouse Apartments at 504 E Pettigrew St. as a result of the outage. That scene has cleared.

The Downtown Durham YMCA was also closed, according to a Facebook post, and traffic lights were out at the intersection of Dillard and Roxboro streets. In the event of an outage, an intersection should be treated like a four-way stop.

WRAL News is working to learn the cause of the outage.