FARMERVILLE, La. (KNOE 8 News) - The motor is running and the fire is now out. Flames caused the substation on South Main Street in Farmerville to shut down, causing a blackout to the entire town among other closures.
"We had to shut-down the roadway for a while to get the fire under control." Chief Ernest "Bim" Coulberston said.
A regulator, holding hundreds of gallons of oil, caused thousands to be without power around 1 o'clock Tuesday afternoon.
"It was a nice fire over there," Mayor M. Stein Baughman, Jr. said.
Shortly after crews worked to give the homes and businesses lights again. Five circuits in the substation made it through the fire., only one needed to be replaced. And that's why electricity was back on in most of Farmerville relatively quickly especially while much of our area was under a heat advisory.
"If you got your air going. Just stay inside where it's cool at instead of going outside," Coulberston said.
It took electrical crews nearly five hours to get the job done at this substation, restoring power across the town and all you can see that's left behind me is some of the equipment heavily damaged as a result of the fire.
Homes along Martin Luther King and Eagle Point Drives were two of the last areas to get their power restored and the police chief mostly patrolled these neighborhoods during the outage.
"From about 6 o'clock everything is up and going. Lets just hope it stays that way,"
No word yet on the price tag of the damage and who's footing the bill.
Saturday, May 25 2013 1:48 PM EDT2013-05-25 17:48:48 GMT
MONROE, La. (KNOE 8 News) - University of Louisiana at Monroe Police are searching for a suspect in a residential burglary in the 4100 block of Bon Aire Drive.
MONROE, La. (KNOE 8 News) - University of Louisiana at Monroe Police are searching for a suspect in a residential burglary in the 4100 block of Bon Aire Drive.
Friday, May 24 2013 6:40 PM EDT2013-05-24 22:40:16 GMT
RIVER RIDGE, La. (AP) - Jefferson Parish sheriff's deputies say a 52-year-old man apparently shot his 16-year-old son in the head and then turned the gun on himself in their home in River Ridge.
RIVER RIDGE, La. (AP) - Jefferson Parish sheriff's deputies say a 52-year-old man apparently shot his 16-year-old son in the head and then turned the gun on himself in their home in River Ridge.
Friday, May 24 2013 10:47 PM EDT2013-05-25 02:47:06 GMT
MOREHOUSE PARISH, La. (KNOE 8 News) - A search is underway for an inmate who escaped from Morehouse Parish.25-year-old Christopher Allen Jones walked away from a work detail on Friday afternoon. Neighboring
MOREHOUSE PARISH, La. (KNOE 8 News) - A search is underway for an inmate who escaped from Morehouse Parish.
MONROE, La. (KNOE 8 News) - A Monroe lawmaker is pushing a bill to allow Louisiana's public school students to pray before and after school and even invite religious leaders on campus? Our Nolan Crane explains.
MONROE, La. (KNOE 8 News) - A Monroe lawmaker is pushing a bill to allow Louisiana's public school students to pray before and after school and even invite religious leaders on campus? Our Nolan Crane explains.
