Des Moines power outage: Man seriously burned after allegedly damaging equipment at MidAmerican substation
By Beau Bowman
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DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI) — More than 5,000 people woke up in downtown Des Moines without power Sunday morning. Police are investigating a trespasser who damaged equipment at a substation.
This started around 5:45 a.m. Sunday, when Des Moines Police say a man climbed over the fence at a substation near 16th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway.
They say he damaged some equipment at the substation, which caused the outage.
Police say when their officers arrived, they found the man naked and badly burned. He was taken to a hospital for treatment and had burns on about 20% of his body, police said.
As of 8:30 a.m., MidAmerican was reporting that power had been restored to all customers in the area.
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