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Power restored after fire in Fuquay-Varina
A fire at a substation knocked out electric service to thousands of Progress Energy customers in Fuquay-Varina early Wednesday.
Posted 2011-04-20T10:21:15+00:00 - Updated 2011-04-20T11:28:50+00:00
A fire at a substation knocked out electric service to thousands of Progress Energy customers in Fuquay-Varina early Wednesday.
A spokesman for the company said that 28,000 people lost power immediately after the outage at 4:40 a.m. Service was restored by around 7 a.m.
The cause of the fire hasn't been determined.