Tuesday, December 02, 2014

'Cable Failure' Causes Massive Power Outage In Detroit

Power outage has been affecting several government buildings in Detroit and left some areas without working traffic lights.

Detroit Public Schools says it's dismissing students at mid-day Tuesday because of the outage, which happened around 10:30 a.m.

Detroit's public lighting department, which serves areas affected by the outage, says "a major cable failure" caused the city's aging grid to lose power .... http://bigstory.ap.org