Power restored to nearly 1,400 in Columbia
Ryan Shiner
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
Nearly 1,400 Columbia Water and Light customers had their power restored after an outage late Thursday night.
An outage impacting 1,379 customers was reported at 10:01 p.m. in the north part of town, west of Paris Road.
Additionally, Boone County Joint Communications issued a notification at 10:08 p.m. describing a transformer fire on Smiley Lane. City Utilities spokesman Matt Nestor wrote in an email that a transformer caught fire at Smiley Lane and Arctic Fox Drive.
ABC 17 News has reached out to the Columbia Fire Department.
Another 17 customers in northeastern Columbia are still without power from this past weekend’s storms.
Check back for updates.