Downed pole leaves 500 without power
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MonPower crews began to restore power to the the area surrounding Harrison Avenue and Lincoln Avenue in Elkins late Thursday night after a utility pole was hit by a truck. On Friday morning crews were able to fully repair and replace the utility pole and restore service.
ELKINS -- Just after 10 p.m. on Thursday evening, a red truck struck a utility pole on the corner of Harrison Avenue and Lincoln Avenue, leaving many Elkins residents without power for the night.
The Elkins Police Department, Elkins Fire Department, Randolph County EMS, Randolph County Sheriff's Department and MonPower responded to the call to help redirect traffic and keep citizens away from the downed power line.
According to MonPower, approximately 500 customers lost electricity due to the accident and crews were still replacing the pole and repairing service on Friday morning.
An Elkins Police Department stated that alcohol may have played a factor in the accident, but no other information was made available at presstime.
The driver was transported via ambulance to Davis Medical Center.
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Also on Thursday evening, the Beverly Fire Department, the Elkins detachment of the West Virginia State Police and the Randolph County Sheriff's Office responded to a call about a structure fire on Dodson Run Road at approximately 5:15 p.m.
The Elkins Fire Department and the Tygarts Valley and Huttonsville-Mill Creek volunteer fire departments also arrived to assist in extinguishing the inferno.
Beverly Fire Chief Tim Harper said the structure was an abandoned house with no one nearby to be injured.
Another structure is next to the house that caught fire but it was undamaged.
"(The house) is done for and turned over to the (Office of the State Fire Marshal)," Harper. "They're going to investigate. We call them in, especially on an abandoned house, to come in and investigate it."