Power Out Through Jacksonville

News4Jax ^ | 04/29/02

[pitinkie]

BREAKING NEWS

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A fire at a power plant at Talleyrand, along with two major transmission lines going down, has resulted in a major outage of electricity throughout the city. JEA spokesman Bruce Dugan told Channel 4 just before 5 p.m. that a fire at the Kennedy Generating Station occured simultaniously as two major transmission lines connecting Jacksonville to the power grid went out.

Dugan said that the whole city was out initially. He said about 15 percent of service has been restored, and most should be back up in two to three hours.

Jacksonville's Emergency Operations Center was activated, and is operating at a level two. Sharon Ashton of the mayor's office said the the fire department is battling fires at the generating plant and in three other places around town.

Police report traffic lights throughout the city are out, and police ask that people only call 911 for emergencies other than to report outages.

The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office just called in their midnight shift, and is holding the day shift over, so that the maximum amount of officers are on the street until all power is restored.

"If you don't be on the road, don't. If you don't need to be on your phone, don't," Ashton said.

Jacksonville International Airport is running on emergency power, and arriving flights are being allowed to land. Departing flights are not taking off, and there are backups in ticketing and securty. Passengers are asked to call their airlines 800 number before before heading to the airport.

Baptist Medical Center is running on emergency power. Channel 4 has been unable to reach the other hospitals.

Telephone service -- even some cellular service -- is affected. Channel 4 understands that power is out in Orange Park, northern St. Johns County and parts of Nassau County as well.

The mayor is expecting to make a statement about the situation at 6 p.m. Channel 4 plans to carry that live.

[mykdsmom]

My parents and brother and family live in Jax.

Rush hour is a HUGE mess when the power is working I can't imagine it tonight.

MKM

[Thinkin' Gal]

a fire at the Kennedy Generating Station

Kennedy curse

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

You say "Redneckville" like there's something wrong with it.

[Jasper]

Uh...huh.
My favorites were 1 week old colds and minor skin rashes.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

It's a safe city as long as you aren't in the ghetto, just like every other city...

[glock rocks]

any explanation for the power lines down? there was an explosion here (salt lake) during
the olympics, which, weeks later, the atf and local pd said was caused by an explosion,
likely a bomb, then it (as a news story) slid off the radar... it caused
an oil refinery to have a fire due to the power outage (a secondary effect).

like many news stories that could actually be terrorist related, that one vaporized.
interesting.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

You in Middleburg? I'm just down the road from you on 21.

[steveo]

Is there anyone in Jacksonville that can verify this story????

[Travis McGee]

How did the tranny lines go down? There should be plenty of forensic evidence to rule terrorism in or out fast.

Transmission is the weak link in the grid!

[LibertyGirl77]

No, it was like this:

Brytni(?) posted all frantic, like, "I just heard on the news that BWI airport is being evacuated because of some terrorist threat and I'm worried 'cause my husband is on a flight from there, but I was about to get in the shower so I can't watch for more details!!!! Has anyone heard anything about this?"

Everyone jumped all over her ass, like "If you're so worried about your dear husband, can't the shower wait?"

And a legend was born....

[zarf]

When my car is busted into and my guitar is stolen....hell yeah i got a problem with it!!!!

[cmsgop]

Saw you on P.I. a few weeks ago. Did you cut your hair?

[Columbo]

Second power outage reported on www.jacksonville.com

- 6:34 P.M. UDPATE Massive power failures hits First Coast A second power failure hit downtown Jacksonville at about 6:20 p.m. after approximately 50% of the area had been restored from the 4:30 p.m. power failure. According to JEA, the two transmissions lines that tripped earlier today have tripped again causing the second interruption.

[pitinkie]

Yes and the ones throwing up for 2 weeks!!!!

[my3centseuro]

very funny :-)

[pitinkie]

Yes my power was just out again!! I am south of Jax in clay county...I have a diff electric service than Jax..can someone tell me why mine keeps going out too???

[LibertyGirl77]

A loooooong time ago. It's growing out. I had it up on the show last time, in a french twist. I like to have the hair and makeup people do stuff to my looks that I can't do in my bathroom at home. It's one of the fun perks of political commentary.

< small voice > But you love me for my mind, right????

[Jasper]

My postal address is Middleburg, but I sort of live in the 'no man's land' area between Middleburg and Orange Park Off of SR 21 just east of Brannan-Field Road.

[pitinkie]

JACKSONVILLE, Fl - Areas around the First Coast experienced a power outage Monday afternoon. The turbines at the Kennedy power generating station at Talleyrand and East 28th Street kicked on due to high temperatures today. However, the power transformer exploded around 4:30pm causing a wide-spread power outage. The fire was put out around 5:15pm. No injuries were reported at the generating station. Fire officials are at the scene.

[Jasper]

Heh..Heh. Don't ya just love it?