The fire knocked out power to 900 customers for several hours, right in the middle of the busy Essence Festival weekend.

Bourbon Street evacuated after underground electrical transformer explodes near Conti Street.

NOPD said the transformer exploded, resulting in a fire on the roadway around 10:36 p.m.

New Orleans’ famed Bourbon Street was evacuated on July 4 after an underground electrical transformer exploded and caught ...

Power has been restored to portions of the French Quarter where a transformer explosion sparked a fire and left parts of the ...

An electrical transformer that exploded and caught fire triggered a power outage in a six-block stretch of downtown Duluth at mid-afternoon Wednesday. The outage occurred about 2:30 p.m. and power ...

Three people were injured when a transformer exploded in New Doornfontein in the Johannesburg CBD on Monday morning.

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