Electrical explosion pops manhole cover in Center City
The 2200 and 2300 blocks of Lombard Street in Center City Philadelphia are shut down as PECO crews work to repair a transformer that exploded underground this morning and sent a manhole cover flying, Action News 6 reports.
Firefighters extinguished the fire quickly, and no injuries are reported.
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