Overview
- The incident began just before 7 p.m. Monday near the 4200 block of Fenwick Avenue by Cleveland Public Power’s West 41st Street facility.
- Cleveland Public Power reported about 1,000 customers lost electricity, with outages stretching to West 114th Street, and by Tuesday afternoon its map no longer showed a widespread outage.
- A house fire at Fenwick and West 42nd Street caused about $75,000 in damage and displaced one resident, and officials reported no injuries.
- A power meter blew off a home and ignited a gas fire, and Enbridge shut off gas service on the affected street as a precaution.
- Firefighters and utility crews secured downed lines, conducted door-to-door checks after reports of meters blown off homes, and continued investigating the cause following dramatic flashes seen along utility poles.