Via Fox 2 St Louis:
Ferguson’s Halloween power outage was the deliberate act of a vandal. Fox2 has confirmed more than 2,000 homes lost power because of someone who appears to have inside information.
Just after 8 p.m. Friday, much of old Ferguson went dark. Pam Reise said, “I was scared for a little bit until it went off. I thought “I’m going to have to turn off my electricity” because I thought it was going to pop.
Some residents reported several minutes of flickering and strange electrical surges, right before the blackout.
Reise said her daughter’s “blow dryer was going bzzz making all kind of noise and my lights in the bedroom were buzzing.”
Even Ferguson Fire and Police headquarters lost power, which some think may have been the target.