Power Expected to be Restored Soon in Wyandotte

Wyandotte residents should have their power restored soon after losing it during a rain and wind storm Wednesday evening.

Melanie McCoy, general manager of , said employees are first trying to bring everyone's power back before they begin researching what caused the outage.

"We’re not sure exactly what it was," McCoy said, shortly before midnight. "Folks driving by reported seeing a flash. I'm guessing that we lost a transformer or an electrical bus. We're working now on getting everybody restored with power."

An electrical bus is a strip of copper or aluminium that conducts electricity within a switchboard.

Police and fire officials responded to the power plant on reports of a flash there, but didn't see signs of any major damage, McCoy said.

"We are not aware of any damage, but with the power being out, we will have to go in and access the situation later," she said. "I was scared when I heard that people saw a flash, but I’m happy that no one was hurt. When you hear things like that, you just never know."