The Naples Fire Department confirmed a fire caused widespread outages.
The fire happened just before 8 p.m. on Monday night along Gulfshore Boulevard North. It was contained to an outbuilding that houses a Florida Power and Light vault, according to Naples Fire. The equipment in that room is part of the larger system, along Gulfshore Boulevard.
Before crews could extinguish the flames, they had to wait for FP&L to shut down power. But once power was shut off, firefighters said, they extinguished the fire quickly…