Power restored after outage on Staten Island
the scene near a transformer fire on Staten Island.
STATEN ISLAND - Thousands of people were briefly without power on Staten Island on Wednesday afternoon.
According to Con Edison, power has been restored to its customers who were temporarily left without service after a fire at a substation caused 3,600 customers to lose power.
Firefighters had responded to a reported smoke condition at a building and a Con Ed substation near Joyce Street & Hylan Boulevard. Video from SkyFOX appeared to show a transformer on fire.
No injuries were reported, and so far, there is no word on what caused the fire.