Workers hurt in DC electrical explosion

WASHINGTON D.C. Deputy Fire Chief Ken Crosswhite says the two men were contract employees working in an outdoor electrical vault when there was an explosion in downtown D.C.'s busy Dupont Circle area. Crosswhite says one man was critically burned and the other suffered smoke inhalation.

Crosswhite says the vault contains various feeds of high voltage. It's unclear what caused the explosion. No power outages were reported.

Traffic in the area is being redirected because parts of 19th Street and the Dupont traffic circle have been closed.

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