Car crash causes power cut for 7,000 residents in part of Miami Beach

The Miami Beach power outage started Saturday night due to a fire at an FPL substation should be entirely over by 4 p.m., Sunday, according to officials.

About 335 residents remained without power Sunday morning after 7,000 people who reside in the Collins Avenue high rises lost power on Saturday night around 10:30 p.m.

While Florida Power & Light (FPL) said it had no formal information that what caused the fire at its Indian Creek substation, social media showed various photos and videos of a vehicle crash and fire that ignited the substation.

The crash, street closure, and power outage added more difficulty in the region as by 8 p.m. a curfew went into effect for a South Beach area about four miles south.

On 6000 Collins Ave Fool driving foolishly back into I suppose Light Pole connected to a generator fried his car an shut down power for blocks 🚫, this happened at 9pm you know that power was off for minute, shit probably still ain’t on. They losing their damn minds down there pic.twitter.com/wq6UI9u7LU

— Zano (@zdogg305) March 21, 2021