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Reading Terminal Market vendors regain power after electrical issue

Reading Terminal Market vendors regain power after electrical issue
Reading Terminal Market vendors regain power after electrical issue 00:20

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Reading Terminal Market is back up and running after a transformer that was nearly 50 years old blew Wednesday afternoon, knocking out power to nearly a third of businesses.

Management says businesses, that still had power stepped in to help other vendors by refrigerating their food until the problem was fixed.

"We're a community here the market is a nonprofit organization and we're all working together to support each other," Zach Treatman, owner of Old City Coffee, said.

The outage impacted over 20 stores in the market. 

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