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Smoke came from the pavement during a power cut in central Bristol<\/p>\n
More than 1,500 properties lost power after smoke poured from a pavement in Bristol.<\/p>\n
The incident happened at the bottom of Whiteladies Road in Clifton.<\/p>\n
Among the properties that have lost power are the BBC Points West, BBC Radio Bristol and BBC West offices based on the road.<\/p>\n
National Grid said the power cut was likely to last until 18:00 BST, saying a “fault on our underground network” was to blame.<\/p>\n
“We are responding to a power cut in central Bristol affecting 1,500 properties that was reported to us at 4.22pm,” the statement said.<\/p>\n
“There has been a fault on our high voltage underground network which engineers are investigating.<\/p>\n
“We apologise for any inconvenience that’s being caused and aim to get supplies reconnected by 18:00.”<\/p>\n
An Avon Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson said crews found and extinguished a fire “under the manhole cover which we believed to be connected to electric cables” at about 16:00 BST.<\/p>\n
The fire service said it believed the fire was connected “to the power infrastructure in the area”.<\/p>\n
It added crews were called to a separate report of black smoke and flames in the same area at 17:09 BST.<\/p>\n
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Kathryn Johnson, of the Royal West of England Academy, says the situation is “heartbreaking”<\/p>\n
The Royal West of England Academy (RWA) said it had to cancel a private viewing of one of its biggest exhibition of the year.<\/p>\n
Kathryn Johnson, head of exhibitions at the RWA, said the incident was a “major electrical fire”.<\/p>\n
“We’ve had to evacuate the building, it’s heartbreaking. There are artists who have come from all over the country to see their work in the show tonight.”<\/p>\n
She added she hoped the building would reopen on Saturday.<\/p>\n
“Anxious, of course. There’s a lot at stake here,” she said.<\/p>\n
“We’re confident everybody is safe. I’m concerned about artworks in the building as well but there’s more here at stake.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BBC Smoke came from the pavement during a power cut in central Bristol More than 1,500 properties lost…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-400611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115153050424429498","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}