Crime & Safety
Small Fire at BGE Substation Disrupts Power
Residents may have experienced short outages at about 1 a.m. Thursday.
Area residents experienced brief power outages early Thursday morning after a small fire at the BGE substation on Waugh Chapel Road.
Firefighters responded shortly before 1 a.m. to a report of some equipment on fire, according to Division Chief Michael Cox of the Anne Arundel County Fire Department.
They arrived to find a small box containing mineral oil on fire. BGE cut power to allow access to the equipment, and the fire was put out quickly.
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