200 Town of Norwich residents without electricity following pole fire
NORWICH - Approximately 200 residents in the Town of Norwich were without power for more than eight hours over the weekend, and officials said the cause of the outage was an electrical pole fire following Friday’s storm.
According to Chenango County Emergency Operations Center Chief Dispatcher A. Wesley Jones, at 8 p.m. on Friday, near the South Plaza in the Town of Norwich, an electrical pole with a main distribution line began experiencing issues due to a storm.
“A large primary line came into contact with a metal crossmember, and it caused some power issues at 8 p.m. on Friday,” said Jones. “It ended up catching fire and burning through the pole overnight.”
“At 10 a.m., the top of the pole split apart from the rest disrupting the power, and customers in the Town of Norwich were without power until about 6:30 p.m. that night.”
Jones said an extensive repair was needed to restore power, and during the outage City of Norwich residents living on the southern side of the city likely lost water. He said the cause of the water loss was that the water pump station is located in the area that lost power.
He added that no one was injured in the pole crash or in the repair of the line.
“The size of the line made it a difficult repair for NYSEG, which is why it took several hours for them to get the power back on,” said Jones.
He said originally it was estimated that power would be returned to the 200 NYSEG customers at approximately 11:30 p.m. Saturday night, but workers were able to finish the repairs by 6:30 p.m.
According to Chenango County Emergency Operations Center Chief Dispatcher A. Wesley Jones, at 8 p.m. on Friday, near the South Plaza in the Town of Norwich, an electrical pole with a main distribution line began experiencing issues due to a storm.
“A large primary line came into contact with a metal crossmember, and it caused some power issues at 8 p.m. on Friday,” said Jones. “It ended up catching fire and burning through the pole overnight.”
“At 10 a.m., the top of the pole split apart from the rest disrupting the power, and customers in the Town of Norwich were without power until about 6:30 p.m. that night.”
Jones said an extensive repair was needed to restore power, and during the outage City of Norwich residents living on the southern side of the city likely lost water. He said the cause of the water loss was that the water pump station is located in the area that lost power.
He added that no one was injured in the pole crash or in the repair of the line.
“The size of the line made it a difficult repair for NYSEG, which is why it took several hours for them to get the power back on,” said Jones.
He said originally it was estimated that power would be returned to the 200 NYSEG customers at approximately 11:30 p.m. Saturday night, but workers were able to finish the repairs by 6:30 p.m.
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