At 7:30 p.m. on Monday, crews were on scene working to replace the pole.
According to the DP&L online outage page, approximately 119 customers are still without power.
INITIAL REPORT:
More than 2,000 Dayton Power & Light customers are without power south of New Carlisle, in Miami County, and we're working to find out what happened.
Outages were being called in about 6:14 p.m. and DP&L is estimating that power will be restored by 8 p.m.
According to the DP&L online outage page, approximately 2,083 customers are without power in Miami County.
We've heard reports of a blown transformer that caught fire. We're working to determine whether that is what led to the outage.
The fire on the pole was reported out about 7: 18 p.m., according police and fire radio dispatch.
We have placed calls to Ohio Edison as well as to DP&L.
We will update this report as we learn more.
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