June 3, 2014 city-wide power outage -- 2 and 1/2 hours

from Wednesday Niles Daily Star coverage (reporter Craig Haupert): www.nilesstar.com/ The entire city of Niles was without power for approximately 2 1/2 hours Tuesday morning, June 3, 2014 after a transformer exploded near the National Standard plant on Lake Street. Brian Bergsma, communications director for American Electric Power, said a fire was reported at a privately owned substation adjacent to AEP’s substation on Lake Street around 8 a.m. Eastern Time Zone. The fire, he said, caused a shutdown of the substation that serves the City of Niles. Bergsma said it was not AEP’s equipment that was affected. Power was restored to parts of the city around 10:15 a.m. and the whole city was back on line just before 11 a.m. Niles Fire Chief Larry Lamb said what caused the transformer to explode is still unknown.