TEXARKANA, Ark.- Sixty-six residents living near Forest Avenue were left without electrical power for nearly seven hours Friday, after a tree fell, striking and breaking two utility poles Friday morning.
Peter Main, a spokesman for the Southwest Electric Power Company, said the residents were without power from about 10:16 a.m., to 5 p.m., while work crews replaced the two down two utility poles and broken power lines.
One of the local residents, who asked not to identified, said she was outside when she heard what sounded like a small explosion from a nearby transformer on another utility pole.
"I heard what sounded like a boom then I looked up and saw some smoke coming from the transformer on a pole across the street from me," she said.