Detroit Power Outage Due To Public Lighting ‘System Overload’
DETROIT (WWJ) – A major power outage is affecting Wayne State University, the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice, the City-County building, the Detroit Historical Museum, and the People Mover in downtown and Midtown Detroit.
“Some institutional public lighting customers are experiencing service interruption caused by extreme heat, cable failure, and routine maintenance — all combining causing system overload,” said Robert Warfield, a spokesman for the Detroit Mayor’s Office.
Wayne State spokesperson Jessica Archer said the campus would be closed for the rest of the day, Wednesday, after about half of all buildings — maybe 40 or 50 — lost power. She said they would decide later about Thursday’s schedule.
Passengers aboard the People Mover were directed off at the nearest station. The People Mover is closed until further notice.
At City Hall, EMS crews were called out to help a pregnant woman on the 4th floor after an evacuation forced people to walk down the stairs to safety. Officials said she’d doing fine.
“We made sure that there was somebody was with every person that was stuck on the floors until we could get them down, said Detroit Fire Chief Gene Biondo. ”When I found out that she was eight months pregnant, I said we’ve gotta get her out of there first.”
Biondo said they were able to get power restored to the building briefly through an emergency system to get that woman and two others down on elevators.
Courtrooms at the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice were evacuated and proceedings in a high-profile Grosse Pointe Park murder case were delayed.
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