Need of Electrician's advice.....

[lisasctt4]

Okay, not sure if this is the place to start this thread but I'm in dire need of advice. Of course the 2 electricians I phoned didn't answer, probably because it is a Sunday so I'm reaching out to CD. We have a 30 year old house and probably with the original electricial. Now, I'm upstairs vaccuming, and the vaccum shuts off from it's outlet along with 5 other outlets throughout the house. Now normally, if a fuse blows, I just press the button in the fusebox and it goes back on. This time, none of the buttons needed to be pressed and when I went back to check all the outlets, all 5 of them are now not working. Is this something that can wait till morning until I can hunt down an electrician? Of course I'm worried about a fire with a family of six, my DH knows nothing about this issue and I'm panicked. Can anyone reassure me? Please only those that may be sure about this. Jeannie

[2ndGenGranola]

DH said several things could be wrong but it sounds like there was a problem in the fusebox and it tripped for protection (it can sacrifice itself w/o giving the normal flipped switch look). With all the outlets being dead it looks like it was doing what it was designed to do. You will need to call your electrician to fix your switch and determine the problem.