All customers of Smithville Electric System and a large service area of Caney Fork Electric Cooperative in DeKalb County were without power for about an hour Wednesday morning after a problem developed at the sub-station on West Main Street.
“We had a fault on one of our distribution meters that came through to the backup relay and that fault caused that relay to burn up and that actually caused a little fire for a short period of time there,” said Michael E. Parker, manager of Smithville Electric System.
“It caused the power to be out. We were able to restore the power by isolating and bypassing the normal backup equipment. The backup relay. We’ve got it back going for now but we will have to do some more repairs in the future. We hope to limit any future outages to a minimum if at all,” said Parker.
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