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Explosions Knock out Power to Hundreds

by Nicole Agee, Anchor/Reporter

By Nicole Agee

Story Created: May 24, 2009 at 12:06 PM CDT

Story Updated: May 25, 2009 at 1:40 AM CDT

CEDAR RAPIDS - Hundreds of homes were without power in southwest Cedar Rapids after a series of transformer box explosions. One of those explosions happened on 6th Street Southwest between 19th and 20th Avenue.

Alliant Energy says an equipment failure caused a spacer cable to come down. That caused a power surge that triggered four or five boxes to explode around 9 o'clock Sunday morning.

Alliant says the outageaffected between 300 and 500 customers.

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