Fresno City Hall was on emergency power after outage, affecting services. It’s back up
Fresno’s City Hall lost power late Sunday, affecting business Monday morning, according to officials.
Some of City Hall was running on emergency generator power, according to an email to city employees, but the loss of power put a crimp in the services available to residents who wanted to pay their bills in person, according to Mark Standriff, the city’s spokesperson.
Workers brought in an additional generator, restoring total power around 1:30 p.m., Standriff said.
Residents can always pay utilities or other bills online but weren’t able to do so at City Hall until the power was restored, Standriff said. The city’s offices at Manchester Mall, near Shields and Blackstone avenues, remained open if residents needed to make their payments in person.
Standriff said some electrical equipment “fried” Sunday night and will likely take a couple of days to fix.
About two years ago, an outage at another downtown building affected the Fresno County Board of Supervisors. The power outage in January 2018 at the Fresno County Hall of Records in downtown closed several offices and plunged a board meeting into darkness.
This story was originally published December 2, 2019 at 9:46 AM.
