Update: Power restored after Charlottesville transformer fire

Power restored to nearly 1,400 in Columbia

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Nearly 1,400 Columbia Water and Light customers are without power. 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. That fire is creating a traffic hazard. City Utilities spokesman Matt Nestor wrote in an email that a transformer caught …

Update: Power restored after Charlottesville transformer fire

A transformer near UVa Medical Center caught fire Thursday evening knocking out power to Charlottesville's Starr Hill and North Downtown neighborhoods.