Parents Fuming About CPS School Without Electrical Power on Chicago's Hottest Day of the Year

Chicago Public Schools children had to be evacuated on the second day of school after a transformer exploded outside Mollison Elementary School, knocking out power to the building on a near-record hot day.

The transformer caught fire outside the school around 11 a.m. in the 4400 block of South King Drive, fire officials said. Mollison's 450 students evacuated the building for a short time before they returned to classrooms.

CPS determined the school was too hot for the children to stay, and robo-calls were made to parents. Temperatures were expected to reach the mid-90s in the Chicago area with a heat index reaching 100 degrees.

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