{"id":265116,"date":"2026-05-09T20:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T20:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/265116\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T20:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T20:56:09","slug":"electrical-fire-causes-power-outages-in-fort-lauderdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/265116\/","title":{"rendered":"Electrical fire causes power outages in Fort Lauderdale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0May 9, 2026 at 4:35 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/N4ZCC5XTX5F2LJE7QKE3STRZRA.jpeg\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 A power outage impacted dozens of businesses on Saturday in Fort Lauderdale\u2019s Las Olas Boulevard area. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue personnel responded to a power pole on fire at about 8:45 a.m. on Saturday at Southeast 12 Avenue and Las Olas Boulevard. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cSaturday is usually very busy for us,\u201d said Andrea Sarracino, the owner of The Sarracino Salon. \u201cUnfortunately, we had to cancel the whole day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Florida Power &amp; Light Company\u2019s outage map showed there were about 34 customers affected at about 9 a.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Some had power restored by 3 p.m., and FPL was still working on the others. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Byron Tollefson\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/b58c08f2-f400-4245-95df-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Byron Tollefson<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Byron Tollefson joined Local 10 News as a reporter in July 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0May 9, 2026 at 4:35 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 A power outage impacted dozens of businesses&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-265116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}