As of 6:30 Tuesday morning, Georgia Power reports that fewer than five customers are affected by last night’s outage. The original story follows below.

Georgia Power outage map showing multiple power outages in Midtown Atlanta neighborhoods with January 27 restoration time
Source: Georgia Power

More than 4,000 people in midtown Atlanta are without power on Monday night.

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Atlanta fire officials say witnesses reported hearing explosions at 11th Street at Crescent Avenue.

Firefighters say they found a small fire underground and put it out.

But they say the power underground is still live, and Georgia Power crews are on-site.

Channel 2’s Courtney Francisco spoke with residents of the 1010 Midtown Condos building in the area who say the whole building is without power.

Georgia Power says there are nearly 2,800 people without power in the area.

Atlanta police and fire crews have the road blocked off and are asking everyone to avoid the area.

Read more at WSBTV.com.

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