A smoking electricity box in a residential section of southeast Roseville has triggered an outage for roughly 500 homes Friday afternoon.
The outage was reported just before 1 p.m. for a tract of homes in the Johnson Ranch section of the city near the intersection of East Roseville Parkway and Sierra College Boulevard.
According to a Roseville fire official, an electrical box was seen smoking at 12:49 p.m. near the intersection of East Roseville Parkway and Old Auburn Road. Fire crews responded and “kept the area secure before turning the scene over to Roseville Electric at 1:12.”…