Small Fire at BGE Substation Disrupts Power
Residents may have experienced short outages at about 1 a.m. Thursday.
Area residents experienced brief power outages early Thursday morning after a small fire at the BGE substation on Waugh Chapel Road. Firefighters responded shortly before 1 a.m. to a report of some equipment on fire, according to Division Chief Michael Cox of the Anne Arundel County Fire Department. They arrived to find a small box containing mineral oil on fire. BGE cut power to allow access to the equipment, and the fire was put out quickly. Did you lose power early Thursday morning? See also:
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Carol B
1:34 pm on Friday, October 5, 2012
Yes--and missed my 5:50 am train as a result! :-( Thanks for letting us know what caused it: I knew the power couldn't have been off for long, because only two of my digital clocks were affected--but it was long enough for the alarm (which doesn't have battery back-up) to reset to 12:00, and I wasn't aware of any weather conditions that could have been responsible! (I thought maybe someone had … more ›