Thousands lose power in Washington DC after substation malfunction
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Thousands of Washington D.C. residents lost power Saturday after a malfunction at a local substation.
The outage began at around 2:30 p.m. ET and affected approximately 40,000 Pepco customers in the District at its peak. A few dozen customers in neighboring Prince George's and Montgomery counties in Maryland were also affected, The Washington Post reported.
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Police reportedly received a surge of calls from people trapped in elevators as the city sweated out 90-degree temperatures.
The outage affected the neighborhoods of Shaw, Woodley Park, Van Ness, Adams Morgan, DuPont, Logan Circle, U Street, and Mount Pleasant.
"We are working to restore service to customers as quickly and safely as possible and are investigating the cause of this incident,” Pepco tweeted.
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Pepco told customers to call the company's outage number at 1-877-737-2662. A website referred by the utility indicated that power would not be restored to all affected residents until early Sunday.
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At approximately 5 p.m. local time, District of Columbia Deputy Mayor Kevin Donahue tweeted that approximately 21,000 people remained without power.
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