Government Center will be closed to the public Thursday, a day after a transformer fire in a nearby underground vault forced the evacuation of the building and snarled traffic throughout downtown.
Firefighters had to wait for a crew from Connecticut Light and Power to shut off the electricity to the building so they could extinguish the flames.
The police department's mobile command truck was called to the scene and emergency medical service paramedics were handing out water to people waiting in the heat outside the building.
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