By Associated Press - Friday, May 15, 2015

GILBERT, Ariz. (AP) - Gilbert firefighters have extinguished a transformer fire at a power facility that sent a tall plume of black smoke over the southeastern part of the Phoenix metro area.

News video showed the fire burning intensely Friday morning in one part of the Salt River Project facility before firefighters put it out.

There were no immediate reports of injuries or outages.



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