UPDATE: Blackout Cuts Power to 6K; Most Restored by 3 p.m.

About 60 percent of Rockville Centre's total electric customers — roughly 6,000 — lost service due to a blown central power transformer at one of the village's substations, officials said.

According to Paul Pallas, superintendent of the electric company, most of the village's power was restored by 3 p.m. on Tuesday, and residents should expect brief outages while crews continue to make repairs. He added that the transformer did not blow because of over usage — temperatures reached as high as 90 degrees on Tuesday — and could have been caused by a minor break in its insulation.

Pallas noted that the fire on Lincoln Avenue did not cause the power outage.

There was a slice of the village — near Park and Grand avenues — that was without power well after 5 p.m., but Pallas said that was due to an unrelated cable failure. He said while crews were working on repairs, they noticed smoke coming out of a manhole, and that's when they found the failed cable.

Two buildings — one on Clinton Avenue, the other on N. Park — were without power due to the cable failure, Pallas said.