The underground fire was extinguished, but the cause is still under investigation. Photo by Jessica Gallagher / The Baltimore Banner.
The underground fire was extinguished, but the cause is still under investigation. Photo by Jessica Gallagher / The Baltimore Banner.

The Clerk for the Baltimore City Circuit Court is demanding more information about underground fires that disrupted numerous services downtown last week.

Circuit Court Clerk Xavier Conaway is asking the Public Service Commission to open an independent investigation into the fire that blazed beneath Charles Street for days.

That fire damaged businesses, caused power and internet outages and forced the Elijah E. Cummings and Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. courthouses, along with the Juvenile Justice Center, to close for an entire day.

Read more (and listen) at WYPR.

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