Power outage causes traffic light failures at intersections, Oro Valley AZ


A power outage caused traffic lights to fail at several intersections in Oro Valley, creating hazardous driving conditions. The outage may have been caused by a transformer explosion. Authorities received multiple 911 calls reporting the traffic hazard and are coordinating to restore power.
Audio|Source: Oro Valley Police and Pima County Sheriff
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Transcript:
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Correct. Traffic hazard, Lambert, and first-person, Lambert.
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1017 Tony Patterson advising that lights are all black we're also getting this at first in tangerine and we're getting multiple 911 calls 1534
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And units on the traffic hazard, we got an additional call advising of a possible transformer explosion and also all the first avenue is going to be black.
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Can I be units of 78-3338 for first November?
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3-38.
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Ten units on this traffic because we're getting it first in Oracle and Oracle and Pushview as well. Five units to both of those locations, advice.
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You're on table. Take Oracle push view.
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1536. This update will be 76 to Oracle first.
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104.
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Hey, zero. 76 for 15011.
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So. 5327.
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I copy all this. Squad 2 is going to be held over until we can get the lights back on.
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And was the info about the transformer from TEP or somebody else?
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Answer is by reporting us.
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Can we contact TEP by zone of the power outage in the area?
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