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Downed Power Line Blamed For Outage

By Greg Bebermeyer

01/18/2016

(KNZA)--A downed power line is being blamed for a power outage in Doniphan County Sunday night.

Westar Energy spokeswoman Gina Penzig told MSC News the outage was reported between 6:00 and 10:00, affecting about 350 customers.

Penzig said about 300 customers in the Troy, Bendena, Denton and Leona area lost power between about 6:00 and 9:00, and 50 customers from about 8:00 to 10:00. In addition, also affected were customers served by the city of Troy and Atchison-Brown Electric Cooperative.

County officials took precautionary measures due to the extreme cold, readying the Troy Community Building for those without power, if needed.

Penzig says they had crews out Monday inspecting the line because it’s very close to the area where they experienced a downed power line last weekend that also caused an outage.

She said they found evidence indicating that someone may have been hunting in the area and shot the line, damaging it. Penzig says they have crews doing visual inspections for any additional damage and are also using infra-red cameras to look for damage along the line in order to identify other repairs that need to be made.

An outage on Sunday, January 10th left about 600 Westar customers without power for about 4 hours.

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