More than 5,000 DTE customers without power after transformer fire
This map shows the affected areas as of 10 a.m. Sunday morning.
DTE outage map
Update at 11:30 a.m.: DTE officials said all power was back to customers as off 10:50 a.m.
More than 5,000 DTE Energy customers in Washtenaw County were without power Sunday morning after a Pittsfield Township transformer fire, officials said.
The DTE Outage map showed a power outage that went from the Interstate 94 and U.S. 23 interchange south along the U.S. 23 corridor through Pittsfield Township and into York Township.
Pittsfield Township Fire Chief Sean Gleason confirmed the outage was the result of a transformer fire at Michigan Avenue and Morgan Road that took place about 9:30 a.m. Sunday.
Dispatchers told AnnArbor.com that firefighters had cleared the scene and DTE Energy crews have been notified.
DTE spokeswoman Erica Donerson said the outage came due to "animal interference." All power was restored by 10:50 a.m. Sunday, Donerson said.
Kyle Feldscher covers cops and courts for AnnArbor.com. He can be reached at kylefeldscher@annarbor.com or you can follow him on Twitter.
Comments
Snarf Oscar Boondoggle
Sun, Sep 8, 2013 : 4:59 p.m.
"animal interference" -- another hawk tried to barbecue a rabbit on teh crossbar? - i just kicked over the house to my generator for a couple hours. dte did do a nice job of fast-repair - thank you, dte.
Annie
Sun, Sep 8, 2013 : 4:53 p.m.
They estimated power would be restored between 12 and 2pm. It was back on by 11. Nice work DTE! :)
OHHIO
Sun, Sep 8, 2013 : 4:23 p.m.
Nice job DTE. Power came back on a lot faster than expected...especially for a Sunday. Thank you.
Arieswoman
Sun, Sep 8, 2013 : 3:53 p.m.
The traffic light at Ellsworth & Platt is now working again. Folks were good about the 4 way stop early this morning.
sportsfroma2
Sun, Sep 8, 2013 : 3:04 p.m.
What I found very "interesting" was how initially DTE had a number of "small" outages on the outage map... given what DTE said to us during the smart meter "upgrade": "Automatic power-outage detection" I would expect that DTE would've known the scope of the outage immediately and the outage map would've reflected that.
Basic Bob
Sun, Sep 8, 2013 : 3:31 p.m.
It might be automatic, but that doesn't make it immediate.
Kyle Feldscher
Sun, Sep 8, 2013 : 3:21 p.m.
It was strange to reload the page and see a few scattered homes without power to a large swath of the township suddenly without power.
sportsfroma2
Sun, Sep 8, 2013 : 2:55 p.m.
Thanks for the updates Kyle - was nice to know what was going on.... Power came back like 2 minutes ago for me