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Downed Wire Near RR Tracks Caused Monday’s Power Outage
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A downed wire near the New Haven Line tracks off of West Avenue caused the outage Monday across downtown Darien from the railroad bridge along Route 1 to the Interstate 95 overpass, a utility spokesman said. “I don’t have a definitive cause as to why it came down,” said Mitch Gross, a spokesman for Eversource (the new name of Connecticut Light & Power, among other utilities). There was a report of an explosion, but it wasn’t part of the problem or a cause of the outage, Gross said. When an electricity line goes down, it’s often accompanied by a loud pop or explosive sound by a device called a “cutout fuse,” he said. That’s what happened in this case, he said.
