ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Power says the FBI is among several agencies involved in the investigation into what caused a fire that knocked out power to Atlanta’s airport, but an agency spokesman says there’s no indication of terrorism at this point.
FBI spokesman Kevin Rowson tells The Associated Press on Tuesday that there’s no sign of “anything nefarious or anything related to terrorism.”
Georgia Power spokesman Craig Bell said the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives also is involved. Bell said that due to the magnitude of the power outage, the company wants to be able to rule out “any possible scenario that wasn’t equipment malfunction.”
Bell said Tuesday that no conclusions have been drawn about the cause of the fire, which took out the airport’s main power supply as well as backup electricity for about 11 hours Sunday.
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