Transformer fire leaves more than 1,000 Franklin County customers without power

More than 1,000 Duke Energy customers were without power in Franklin County Tuesday morning after the Youngsville Fire Department said a transformer caught on fire.

The outage was resolved as of 6 a.m.

The Youngsville Fire Department said crews responded to a transformer fire on Tarboro Road outside of Youngsville late Monday night. About 2,500 customers reported outages, according to the fire department.

Outages were first reported around 11 p.m. Monday. The Duke Energy outage map indicates the cause of the outage is equipment going offline. 

The WRAL Breaking News Tracker captured video of crews working on utility lines on Tarboro Road around 3 a.m. Monday. A handful of traffic lights in the town were not working.