UPDATE: Downed poles near Boeing Field take out power to parts of White Center and elsewhere
5 PM: Part of White Center is affected by a huge Seattle City Light outage – here’s the full map. SCL says a crash on East Marginal Way near Boeing Field is to blame – in all, more than 16,000 homes and businesses are without power.
5:25 PM: Here’s the scene near the Museum of Flight where apparently multiple poles came down:
There is a vehicle in the roadway that was struck by a power line that fell into the road. There are two people trapped inside the vehicle at this Rome. Crews are working to deactivate the lines and safely extract the two trapped inside. pic.twitter.com/tEekhPVNDu
— Tukwila Police (@TukwilaPD) April 5, 2019
6:19 PM: All but a little over 300 of the affected customers are back on. KIRO-TV coverage at the scene showed multiple poles had fallen and speculated some kind of wind had brought them down. Whatever the case, it appears a stretch of East Marginal near the Museum of Flight will be closed for quite some time.
Both individuals in the vehicle have been safely extracted from it by Tukwila FD. 1 victim had a superficial injury & the other had non-life threatening injuries & was transported by ambulance. The roadway is expected to be closed for an extended time. pic.twitter.com/zwy8kh2Qhc
— Tukwila Police (@TukwilaPD) April 6, 2019
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