Around 150 homes in Wellington’s north are expected to be without power until midnight tonight after a transformer burst into flames this morning.
Fire and Emergency responded to black smoke billowing from the electrical structure in Churton Park with two trucks at around 11.30am.
Footage provided to 1News showed crews at the scene of the blaze on the corner of Halswater Dr and Burbank Cres.
Black smoke issued from the burning transformer as firefighters moved in to tackle the situaton.
Wellington Electricity said around 1000 customers were directly impacted by the outage while another 1600 had their power disconnected as repairs were made.
By 3pm, the number of affected customers was down to 148, whose power was expected to be restored by midnight.
“We are working to restore power as quickly and as safely as possible,” Wellington Electricity said.
