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Pole fire leaves one without power

One MidAmerican Energy customer is without power after a pole caught fire and a line went down Thursday in Webster County, Abby Bottenfield, MidAmerican media relations representative, confirmed.

Firefighters and Mid-American crews responded.

A transformer caught fire in Vincent at about 7:30 a.m. Thursday, according to scanner traffic.

Bottenfield did not say whether this was the incident to which she referred.

Grass near the pole reportedly caught fire. No one was injured.

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