SEATTLE — A vault fire in north Seattle left roughly 21,500 customers without power Wednesday evening. The incident, which initially affected around 4,400 customers, required the entire vault system to be de-energized to safely access the equipment, according to Seattle City Light.

If you lost power last night, you’re not alone: 21,900 customers experienced outages in North Seattle Wednesday night when an underground electrical vault caught fire. Smoke was seen coming

The Seattle Fire Department received reports of smoke coming from an underground electric vault near Fremont Avenue North and North 107th Street.