Power was knocked out for about 1,000 homes and businesses in a Northeast Philadelphia neighborhood Thursday after police said a man tried to steal copper wire from a transformer box owned by PECO ...

Police said a man -- in his 40s or 50s -- cut the lock off a PECO electric box in an attempt to steal some copper wire inside ... incident immediately caused a power outage for other businesses ...

Early Tuesday morning, firefighters responded to the 4000 block of Frankford Avenue and found burn marks on a Peco-owned pole, police said. Around 2:45 a.m., Smore said, two people cut into power ...

Wires are the individual insulated or bare conductors inside the ... for running power to a large detached shop building.

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A man was nearly electrocuted while police said he tried to steal copper wiring, knocking out power to 1,500 homes ... trying to steal copper wire. An electrical shock ...

the wire inside it melts if the current is too large; once the fuse has melted, the circuit is broken and no more current flows.