Paris fire leaves thousands of homes and train station without electricity

PARIS—A fire at a substation in the south-west of Paris knocked out electricity supply to thousands of homes and one of France's busiest train stations, leaving passengers stranded ahead of a holiday weekend on Friday. French electricity grid operator RTE, a unit of utility EDF, said in a statement that the fire started at a 63,000 volts underground tunnel at the station in Issy-les-Moulineaux (Reuters).