Almost 8,000 left without power in downtown Milwaukee Friday after outage

CREATED Mar. 8, 2013 - UPDATED: Mar. 8, 2013

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  • A major power outage has left 8000 people without power in the downtown area, including on the Marquette campus. Video by tmj4.com

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MILWAUKEE - A major power outage left 8,000 people without power in the downtown area Friday afternoon, including on the Marquette campus.

The outage started around 4:45 p.m. According to a We Energies spokesperson, the outage was caused by an equipment failure at the substation on 28th & St Paul. There were reports of a flash when the failure happened.