A power outage Wednesday night left 8,000 without power in Jefferson Parish. A parish leader said the outage was reportedly caused by a breaker failure. Some residents are still without power.

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In each of the four figures in this appendix, the bus work or node is depicted as a solid line. The squares represent circuit breakers that open the electrical circuit under load or short-circuit ...

Jefferson Parish Emergency Management Director Joe Valiente said the breaker failure resulted in a line explosion.