500 Manassas Park Residences Lost Power in Tuesday Night Outage

Equipment failure is to blame for a power outage that left some 500 Manassas Park residents in the dark Tuesday evening, Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative public relations representative Mike Curtis said Wednesday morning.

Lights flickered for several moments, then died in several residences in City Center Apartments on Manassas Drive just after 9:30 p.m. Tuesday.

The power outage was spotty throughout City Center and other Manassas Park communities with some residents losing complete power while electricity continue to flow normally in neighboring homes.

The equipment failure affected a three-phase line, which explains why some homes lost all or some power and others were unaffected, Curtis said. 

"It was not a brown out, which would be a drop in voltage generally associated with high-load conditions," he said Tuesday morning.

The outage lasted about an hour and was fixed after NOVEC crews responded to Manassas Park.