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Nova Scotia Power investigating damage to underground equipment in Dartmouth

Nova Scotia Power crews areinvestigating after some underground equipment was damaged indowntown Dartmouthon Saturday, leaving nearly 1,400 customers without electricity.

Nearly 1,400 customers were without power Saturday morning after reports of smoke, 'loud banging noise'

This image shows an area of Portland Street in downtown Dartmouth blocked off with police tape on June 26, 2021. (Jean Laroche/CBC)

Nova Scotia Power crews areinvestigating after some underground equipment was damaged indowntown Dartmouth on Saturday morning, leaving nearly 1,400 customers without electricity.

Halifax Regional Police had blocked off an area of Portland Streetafter reports of a "loud banging noise" and smoke coming from an undergroundsubstationhatch.

Fire crews were also called to the scene just before 9 a.m. AT.

"We got called to an underground Nova Scotia Power hatch in front of the art gallery," said Halifax district fire chief Lloyd Currie.

"The police were on scene before us and they could hearsome loud banging noise and then the power went out."

The outage was caused by a faulty underground transformer that shorted, an email from Halifax police said.

Emergency vehicles are shown on Portland Street on June 26, 2021. Halifax Regional Police and fire crews were called to the street after reports of a 'loud banging noise' and smoke coming from a hatch on the sidewalk. (Jean Laroche/CBC)

Power was restored to almost all 1,400 customers just after 11 a.m. AT.

"There are still approximately 45 [customers] without power related to the damage to the underground equipment,"Kathryn O'Neill, a spokesperson forNova Scotia Power, said in a text message at 12:20 p.m. AT.

"Crews continue to be on site and working to restore power as quickly as possible."

Estimated restoration time for the remaining outages was3:15 p.m. AT.

Police and fire crews hadleft the area by Saturday afternoon and the streetreopened.

With files from Sarah Haliburton