{"id":145234,"date":"2018-05-18T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=145234"},"modified":"2018-05-19T16:10:16","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T21:10:16","slug":"ottertail-power-pole-burns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=145234","title":{"rendered":"Fire on Otter Tail Power poles Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown (CSi) Otter Tail Power Company reports two utility pole fires Thursday night caused power outages.<\/p>\n<p>A utility pole fire in Southeast Jamestown Thursday evening caused a\u00a0 power outage to 10 customers, lasting about two hours.<\/p>\n<p>Other customers experienced a brief power outage.\u00a0 Otter Tail\u2019s Jamestown Officer, Operations Manager, Charles Krebs says the cause was equipment failure, due to a burned conductor.<\/p>\n<div class=\"easyRotatorWrapper\" align=\"center\">\r\n\r\n<!-- Begin DWUser_EasyRotator -->\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/c520866.r66.cf2.rackcdn.com\/1\/js\/easy_rotator.min.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div class=\"dwuserEasyRotator\" style=\"width: 600px; 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Sheldon Mohr says four city fire units and 21 firefighters\u00a0 were on the scene about 25-minutes until Otter Tail crews arrived on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>There was smoke and some burn damage to the top of the pole.\u00a0 Power lines stayed in place.<\/p>\n<p>Krebs adds that another outage occurred Thursday evening east of Old Highway 10 past the \u201cS\u201d curves toward Spiritwood, in the feeder line affecting 15-25\u00a0 rural customers east of Bloom,\u00a0 ranging from 8:30 p.m., to 12:30-a.m.<\/p>\n<p>In that case water had seeped into a cracked insulator, causing a fire on the pole, and the outage.<\/p>\n<p>He says that burned pole may need replacement as well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown (CSi) Otter Tail Power Company reports two utility pole fires Thursday night caused power outages. A utility pole fire in Southeast Jamestown Thursday evening caused a\u00a0 power outage to 10 customers, lasting about two hours. Other customers experienced a brief power outage.\u00a0 Otter Tail\u2019s Jamestown Officer, Operations Manager, Charles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":145236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145234"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145363,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145234\/revisions\/145363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/145236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}