Power has been restored after more than 400 Pepco customers near Dupont Circle were affected by an outage earlier Wednesday.
Most of those affected were near M Street and 17th Street Northwest.
It’s not clear what caused the outage, but D.C. Fire and EMS reported when it got on the scene around 5 a.m. that it found smoke coming from as many as two manholes.
The fire department contained the scene. No injuries were reported.
Pepco said power was restored early Wednesday afternoon.
arrived on the scene / 17th and P just after before 5:00a.m. to discover smoke coming from as many as two manholes. Conditions contained and scene quickly handed over to – no injuries reported – all of our units have returned to service.
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