Over 9,000 without electricity and water in Algiers following Entergy power station fire

Published: Jan 04, 2024 Duration: 00:03:24 Category: News & Politics

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Straight out to Meg with more on the energy substation situation. Sure. Well, Leslie people are being told here in the general Myer Patterson area of Algiers is about a block from the river by New Orleans that their power is going to be back on at one o'clock. Now, look behind me right here. You can see energy workers are there. You can see that charred out big piece of equipment that caught on fire earlier today. It's just a completely charred and black. Let's go right to video that neighbors and viewers of ours sent into us at channel four news. People who witnessed and saw the big fireball. They uh some described it as an explosion, lots of black billowing smoke very thick in the area. Now, energy New Orleans tells us that a fire substation caught on fire and that happened around 845 this morning. They say because of this fire, 9400 customers now have been without power since before nine o'clock this morning. It is under investigation. They don't know what actually caused that fire. Now, let's go to some video about an hour and a half ago that photojournalist Adam Copus and I were here, we saw the fire department on the scene and FD responded. They had nine different units here with 27 different firefighters working. This fire took them about an hour to get things under control. They tell us that there are absolutely no injuries and they say that it was smoldering and then we talked to some neighbors about what they saw. Here's what they had to say. I was in the kitchen cooking and I heard the pop and pop, pop, pop, pop. I stepped outside. And once I stepped outside, boom, I heard I heard the explosion, the fire. It was smoking a lot of smoke. And that's when I noticed it was, that was on fire over there. That's why our lights went out because I thought it was the break at first. Was it scary? Yeah, I was scared. I ain't gonna lie. I was scared but my neighbor was outside before me. I heard her verse. When I heard her, I came outside the whole sky full of smoke and fire a little bit. Now, this is important for everyone in Algiers. Not just the people who don't have power. There's one waste water system in Algiers and of course it's off line because there's no power, sewage and water board tells us that they are bringing in generators, portable generators to help get it back going. But they want everyone in Algiers to limit waste water. Now that's doing your laundry, the dishwasher, the sinks using the bathroom. So limit that you can get fresh water out of your faucet. That's fine. It's just waste water until that goes back online. They ask people please limit that and they're trying to get those generators to those lift stations to not make it as bad as if they didn't have any. So that's what's going on here. Now, of course, again, they're hoping one o'clock for the power to come back on reporting live from Algiers Meg, Ferris eyewitness News Meg. Thank you very much.

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