A garbage truck plowed into power poles Monday morning, sending one crashing into a duplex and leaving more than 2,000 customers without electricity in Hollywood, according to Florida Power & Light.
The garbage truck, owned by a private company, knocked down power poles along Harrison Street and A1A, according to Hollywood police. The force of the crash sent one of the poles falling onto a duplex, downing power lines and damaging parts of the home.
Pictures on Hollywood police’s Twitter show one of the power poles leaning against the duplex’s roof, the base of the other pole broken, sitting water surrounding the home and the street. The water will make repairs more dangerous for FPL crews who have reportedly shut down power in the area as they work to assess and repair the damage.
A garbage truck has knocked down a power pole, sending it crashing into a duplex and leaving more than a hundred people without power in Hollywood. Hollywood Florida Police Department
Sitting water will make it more dangerous for crews to assess and repair the damages after a garbage truck knocked down a power pole, sending it crashing onto a duplex and downing power lines. Hollywood Florida Police Department
A total of 2,046 customers were affected by the outage shortly after 8 a.m., said FPL spokesman Matt Eissey.
“Using our smart grid technology, 92 percent of the customers affected were restored before 9 a.m.,” Eissey said.
Eissey says the company expects to replace the power poles and restore power to the remaining 159 customers by 8 p.m. Monday.
There were no injuries, according to police.
Expect some power outages near Harrison st and A1A due to a trash truck knocking over a power line. FPL on scene now. pic.twitter.com/so06mdPePo
Michelle Marchante covers the pulse of healthcare in South Florida and also the City of Coral Gables. Before that, she covered the COVID-19 pandemic, hurricanes, crime, education, entertainment and other topics in South Florida for the Herald as a breaking news reporter. She recently won first place in the health reporting category in the 2025 Sunshine State Awards for her coverage of Steward Health’s bankruptcy. An investigative series about the abrupt closure of a Miami heart transplant program led Michelle and her colleagues to be recognized as finalists in two 2024 Florida Sunshine State Award categories. She also won second place in the 73rd annual Green Eyeshade Awards for her consumer-focused healthcare stories and was part of the team of reporters who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for the Miami Herald’s breaking news coverage of the Surfside building collapse. Michelle graduated with honors from Florida International University and was a 2025 National Press Foundation Covering Workplace Mental Health fellow and a 2020-2021 Poynter-Koch Media & Journalism fellow. Support my work with a digital subscription
