MEMPHIS, Tenn. — After nearly 24 hours, power was restored to a Midtown high-rise that houses many elderly and disabled people.
MLGW said a faulty cable underground was to blame for the outage that impacted about six buildings in that area.
It said it took crews time to locate and repair the line.
Residents at the Linden Camilla Towers said most of the time they had no working elevators and were literally left in the dark.
“You had people in wheelchairs who couldn’t get out of the building. You got elderly people who are in here on respirators. Some of them bed ridden,” James Brown said.
The lights went out around 11:30 a.m Sunday.
A generator kicked in at about 5 a.m. Monday giving the building one working elevator and lights in the hallways.
At 10:30 a.m. MLGW sent out a tweet that said the power had been restored.
Linden Camillla Towers is a Housing and Urban Development-assisted property.
Residents said they couldn’t understand why HUD or the property owners hadn’t done anything to assist them.
The Memphis HUD office told WREG it knew nothing about the power outage.
WREG tried to contact owners of the Linden Camilla Towers but have not heard back from them.
Properties owners told us they could not comment.