Neighborhoods in northeast Washington in the area served by Pepco’s Benning Road substation are without power due to tripped feeders at the substation.  Locations without power include Langston Terrace Public Housing (274 units at 21st and Benning Road); Charles Young Elementary School, and WASA facilities at 2600 Independence Avenue S.E.  The outage also affects RFK Stadium. 

HSEMA has provided 40 cases of water and 500 meals to residents of Langston dwellings as well as cooling buses.  The Department of Health has surveyed residents at Langston Terrace to ensure that medical needs are being addressed.  The city’s Office on Aging has checked on elderly residents to ensure that they are not in distress as a result of the outage. 

Pepco has crews on site working to restore power but there is no estimated time of restoration.  HSEMA will continue to monitor the situation and coordinate needed resources.