Underground Vault Explosion Causes Outage for 2,000 Customers

NORWALK, CA — An explosion in an underground electrical vault Wednesday night blew off a manhole cover and caused an SUV to flip and land on its side, causing non-life-threatening injuries to the driver.

The blast occurred just before 6 p.m. on Bloomfield Avenue, just north of Foster Road, a sheriff's lieutenant told the San Gabriel Valley Tribune.

The woman driving the SUV was taken to a hospital, but suffered only minor injuries, the newspaper reported.

About 2,000 area residents lost power. All but around 40 had service restored within 30 minutes and the rest were expected to be back on line by early Thursday morning, a Southern California Edison official told the Tribune.

Crews were investigating what caused the explosion.

— City News Service, photo via Shutterstock