Update:CL&P reports that a temporary generator was installed as of 3:50 p.m. Crews are still cleaning up and making repairs to a transformer and will stay on scene “as long as it takes,” Mitch Gross of CL&P said.
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EMTs, firefighters, police and housing authority employees helped residents at the Callahan House on Smith Street move to a cooler location after the building lost power Friday morning.
The residents were moved to the cafeteria of an assisted-living facility next door.
The Callahan House is an 80-unit federally subsidized apartment complex. Most of the residents are senior citizens. Some of the younger residents have disabilities.
The National Weather Service had issued an excessive heat warning at 9:23 a.m.
It was 88 degrees in Seymour at 11 a.m. The humidity was at 66 percent, making it feel like 98 degrees.
First Selectman Paul Roy said there were no heat-related illnesses reported at the Callahan House.
The town started receiving reports about the power problem at about 7 a.m., Roy said.
“That was before it started to get really hot. We were lucky,” Roy said.
In addition to emergency crews from Seymour, manpower from the surrounding Valley towns are lending a hand to move the seniors and medically-fragile residents.
Mitch Gross, a spokesman for CL&P, said the transformer outside the Callahan House malfunctioned this morning. He was not sure of the precise cause.
A CL&P crew is on the scene. It is not known when power will be restored.
Roy said CL&P installed a temporary generator.
