{"id":776114,"date":"2026-05-06T00:54:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/776114\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T00:54:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:54:17","slug":"couple-sues-cps-energy-after-alleged-transformer-blast-destroys-far-west-side-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/776114\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple sues CPS Energy after alleged transformer blast destroys Far West Side home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO \u2014 A couple is suing CPS Energy and two others after they allege a transformer explosion destroyed their Far West Side home back in February.<\/p>\n<p>Court records show Johnny and Irene Sanchez filed a more than $1 million lawsuit on Monday in Bexar County&#8217;s 166th District Court. The lawsuit alleges negligence against CPS Energy, KBS Electrical Distributors, Inc., and JSHP Transformer USA Corporation. <\/p>\n<p>On February 7, the San Antonio Fire Department responded to the home on Fillmore near Dugas Drive. <\/p>\n<p>Fire crews arrived to find two cars and a home on fire. At the time, there were no injuries reported.<\/p>\n<p>CPS Energy crews also responded to the scene, where at least 36 customers were without power at the time, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/outagemap.cpsenergy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CPS Energy Outage Map<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/vehicle-catches-fire-flames-hop-to-second-vehicle-and-house-before-crews-stop-spread\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vehicle catches fire, flames hop to second vehicle and house before crews stop spread<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anthony Sloat, who shared photos of the fire, said he was coming home from church at the time and heard &#8220;pops&#8221; before the fire broke out. <\/p>\n<p>According to the lawsuit, surveillance video showed the explosion originated at or near a CPS Energy electrical transformer box in the front yard adjacent to the driveway where the couple&#8217;s two vehicles were parked. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Within moments, both vehicles\u2014a Toyota RAV4 and a Chevrolet Silverado\u2014were engulfed in flames,&#8221; the lawsuit states. <\/p>\n<p>The couple suffered injuries including smoke inhalation, physical injuries, and psychological trauma, the lawsuit states. <\/p>\n<p>The couple was also displaced from their home, which the lawsuit says sustained &#8220;catastrophic structural damage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This comes after two residents <a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/two-residents-sue-cps-energy-for-gross-negligence-after-northeast-side-gas-explosions-san-antonio-texas-investigation-evidence-ntsb-victims-homes-neighborhood-firefighters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">filed suit against CPS Energy just last month<\/a> in connection to a series of natural gas explosions on the Northeast Side. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 A couple is suing CPS Energy and two others after they allege a transformer explosion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":776115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-776114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-sanantonio","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116524906173920006","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}