AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A fire in an electrical vault Wednesday evening caused power outages at several prominent downtown Austin buildings, including One Texas Center, the Long Center and the Hyatt Regency Hotel, according to Austin Energy.<\/p>\n
Austin Fire Department crews responded to 201 Barton Springs Road, where a fire broke out in an electrical vault on the ground floor of a parking garage. The department initially reported the incident at 300 S. Congress Ave. before correcting the address.<\/p>\n
According to Austin Energy, crews are working alongside Austin firefighters to de-energize equipment inside the electrical vault so firefighters can safely extinguish the remaining fire.<\/p>\n
Once the scene is safe, Austin Energy crews will assess the damage and begin repairs.<\/p>\n
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Austin Energy said seven buildings lost power because of the incident, including:<\/p>\n
One Texas CenterTown Lake CenterLong CenterHyatt Regency Hotel<\/p>\n
The utility did not immediately identify the remaining affected buildings.<\/p>\n
As of 5:38 p.m., Austin Energy reported 19 active outages affecting 163 customers. The utility said 99.97% of customers continued to have power.<\/p>\n
It was not immediately clear what caused the fire or whether anyone was injured.<\/p>\n
Drivers are urged to avoid the area while emergency crews continue working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A fire in an electrical vault Wednesday evening caused power outages at several prominent downtown…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-383629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}