Power has been restored to a large part of Emporia after an outage developed Thursday morning.
The outage impacted an area from Walnut Park west to the Industrial Road corridor and south to the Lyon County Highway Department, forcing Village School to send parents wanting summer meals to Riverside Elementary and trigging outages at several Flinthills Mall stores. Several stoplights were also offline through the outage.
The fire developed after a possible transformer fire atop a pole in the 1200 block of Prairie.
10 am Thursday: Power outage impacting over 1,700 Evergy customers in west Emporia
Power is out for a good chunk of Emporia on Thursday morning.
The outage developed after a power pole caught fire in the 1200 block of Prairie around 9:30 am. Over 1,700 Evergy customers are currently affected.
Evergy, Emporia Fire, Emporia Police and Emporia Public Works have been responding.
The outage currently impacts traffic lights at 12th and Prairie, 12th and Industrial and 15th and Industrial, so temporary stop signs are up at those intersections. It also stretches from near Walnut Park west past Industrial Road and south near the Lyon County Highway Department.
There has been one related schedule adjustment. Free student meals at Village School will not take place Thursday. Parents are being directed to Riverside for those meals.
KVOE and KVOE.com will have updates.
