Nearly 500 customers near Volunteer Park spent the night without electricity overnight after an equipment failure caused a transformer fire Thursday night.
Seattle Fire was called to the small fire just after 10:30 PM. The initial outage included only a small swath of 12th Ave and a larger area of about 300 customers around 23rd and John.
Overnight as repairs were undertaken, the outage spread to around 500 customers along 12th and 13th Ave near the park.
Service was reported restored by Friday morning. Seattle City Light says equipment failure caused the outage as temperatures dipped amid moderate winds overnight.
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