Dr. Howard Fuller Collegiate Academy — School With Temporary Power Outage
Fire department officials rushed to Dr. Howard Fuller Collegiate Academy near 44th and Congress streets on Thursday morning after a lightning strike hit near the school and knocked out its power, according to school officials. Despite the scare, the school day continued as normal, and students were reported safe and accounted for throughout the outage.
The lightning strike and resulting blackout came as severe storms swept across Southeastern Wisconsin, leaving more than 20,000 customers without power, as reported by WISN. We Energies crews were still investigating what caused the outage, but the utility was not immediately able to give school officials a reason for the temporary loss of power. A We Energies maintenance team was dispatched to look into the specific outage at the school, per the same account…