Maricopa, Arizona (AZFamily) — At least 33,000 residents and businesses in the City of Maricopa were without power early Tuesday morning.
Details are limited at this time, but initial reports were that widespread power outages began around 7 a.m. Many traffic lights lost power, and the city mobilized all available personnel to provide traffic assistance. As a result, the Maricopa Police Department is reminding the public to treat all broken traffic lights as four-way stops.
What is the cause of the power outage?
“ED3 is experiencing a transmission failure to its system. ED3 is in contact with transmission providers such as WAPA and APS. APS has dispatched a correspondent to investigate this issue. APS has teamed up with reports that it would take at least an hour to reach the scene,” the utility said. 3rd electric district Published on the website. “WAPA has reported that a critical event has occurred on its systems. ED3 will provide an update as further information becomes available.”
Major repairs began around 10 a.m. and the majority of customers had service restored by 11 a.m. No other information was immediately released.
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