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No Power, A/C Late Wednesday Night For Hundreds
July 21, 2016
Hundreds of Cantonment and Cottage Hill residents spent up to about 90 minutes in the dark — and without air conditioning — Wednesday night.
Gulf Power reported 1,690 customers in the area lost power about 10:37 p.m. About half of the customers had their power restored within about an hour, while everyone was back on by about 12:10 a.m. Thursday.
The cause of the outage was reported to be “system protection equipment”.
During the outage, the Cantonment Station of Escambia Fire Rescue responded to Jim Allen Elementary School for a sprinkler system waterflow alarm. The cause of the alarm was attributed to the power failure.
NorthEscambia.com photo by Kristi Barbour, click to enlarge.
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4 Responses to “No Power, A/C Late Wednesday Night For Hundreds”
I live off Hwy 297A South of Kingsfield Road: There is a power surge at least once per month and sometimes more. These surges have caused damage to our electronics. We are getting really sick of repairing and replacing products. We know there has been a surge if we are away – clocks are flashing when we get home. By the way, we have underground power and phone.
I live off Kingsfield and Chemstrand road, the power flickered on and off for about 10 minutes or but never went completely out. We have underground power and it seems we have more outages than places with power lines and we live less than two miles away from the power plant, so be careful what you wish for is all I’m saying.
I live in Cottage Hill, have been for decades, and it seems like these outages are getting worse. Family and friends that live in town or in the southern part of the county do not have these outages nearly as much. Is Gulf Power planning on upgrading us to buried lines any time soon?
That water alarm sounded like a car alarm going off. We are across 29 and it sounded like it was in our back yard!