UPDATE 9:01 PM: And, just like that, Seattle City Light has restored most of the customers in the area. As you were.
.@SEACityLight all over it. Already on the map — 1700 customers out https://t.co/e3bMLadZFr — @SeattleFire at 12/Cherry to check out report of transformer explosion pic.twitter.com/unVyAGAJiq
— jseattle (@jseattle) March 11, 2018
12th Ave from Cherry to Pine was dark Saturday night as a power outage stretched across the area starting around 7:45 PM.
911 callers reported an explosion and sparks near 12th and Cherry but Seattle Fire checked the area and found nothing to respond to and Seattle City Light was continuing to search for a cause of the outage as of an hour after the area went dark.
Several businesses in the area along 12th and the eastern edge of Pike/Pine were forced to close their doors as they waited for power to be restored.
Leschi shooting
If you heard a lot of sirens after the start of the outage, you might have heard the Seattle Police and SFD response to a shooting at a residence on E Superior north of Leschi Park where a teen girl was reported shot in the back. According to radio dispatches, the victim was alert and conscious before being transported to Harborview after the 8:15 PM shooting. Police were searching for a victim reported leaving the scene. UPDATE: SPD says it appears the teen was shot when someone fired a gun from outside the residence and a bullet crashed through the house’s front door.
