Fire at Cleco substation disrupts power in Covington

What happened

The Covington Fire Department responded to a fire at Cleco's Ramsey Substation near Phillip Drive and Ronald Reagan Highway in Covington. Preliminary reports put the start of the fire at about 7:20 p.m. on Tuesday night. At one point 17,000 people lost power. Supply was later fully restored. The official cause remains under investigation.

Contributing factors

No contributing factor has been reported. The official cause remains under investigation.

Lessons learned

1. A substation fire can interrupt supply to a large number of customers even when power is later restored.
2. Until an investigation reports a cause, treat the initiating failure as unknown rather than assuming a single component.
3. Early updates on the scale of the outage and on restoration help customers while the cause is still unknown.

Source

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