POWER OUTAGE IN ELYRIA

Elyria – Another hot day – Another day without power. Many residents and businesses in Elyria’s south side and much of Carlisle Township’s north side was without power Thursday afternoon after a power surge blew transformers along Oberlin-Elyria Road.

Carlisle Township Fire Department received multiple calls of an “electrical explosion” in front of 628 Oberlin-Elyria Road. Lieutenant Randy Feakins of the Carlisle Township Fire Department said when he arrived he found that primary lines had come loose and were wrapped around the secondary lines below. “Much of the power was out along that stretch as we were responding to the area. The traffic lights at Route 20 & 301 were knocked out so the State has set up a generator to help keep them running until Ohio Edison restores full power to the area.”

The outage caused surges throughout the area causing damage to residences homes and in some cases appliances. Feakins said Firefighters responded to a home on LaGrange Road after the homeowners heard several “popping” noises from inside their home. “As soon as we entered the home we smelled that very distinct electrical burning odor. We found that a computer had blown up during the surge but there was no other damage to the home.”

Elyria Police Officers were called to Colonial Oaks on Middle Ave after a resident thought he saw a man shooting at a transformer just before the power outage. Officers found several electrical connection boxes to vacant lots had blown their caps during the surge and found nobody with a gun.

By late afternoon most of the affected area had power restored with some customers along Middle Ave waiting for the juice.

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