Xcel Energy employees worked late Wednesday night to restore electrical power to 10,970 customers in the LoDo and Ballpark neighborhoods after a large piece of debris blew into a substation and damaged electrical equipment.
“By 10:15 p.m. power was restored to all customers in the area,” said Michelle Arguayo, Xcel spokeswoman.
Denver firefighters responded to at least a dozen calls about stuck elevators associated with the outages. There were also reports of surveillance cameras going down. Downtown traffic lights went out because of the outages, causing huge traffic delays.
The rough boundary on the hard-hit area was 14th to 20th streets and Champa to Platte streets.
The first 48 outages affecting 6,417 customers were reported at about 7:20 p.m. Downtown traffic lights were down as part of the outages.
