Power was restored to the Cobble Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn Friday evening after a manhole fire earlier in the day sent smoke onto the street and into a supermarket.
Fire officials say the explosion happened around 11 a.m. Friday morning in front of Key Food grocery store on Atlantic Avenue. The blast caused the store to lose power, forcing it to close.
Lights also went out at the intersection of Atlantic Avenue and Clinton Street.
A store employee says it was a scary scene.
“We were standing here, next thing you know it was just a big cloud of black smoke just coming from out of nowhere, from underneath there – the manhole,” said Janay Packer. “And then for like give or take a good half an hour, it just exploded. There were like ten fire trucks out here. It was just crazy.”
The fire may have been sparked by a transformer. No one was hurt.
