FALCONER – Workers with the Jamestown Board of Public Utilities were in Falconer Friday morning dealing with a reported electrical fire that resulted in power being knocked out for a large portion of the village and surrounding area.
According to BPU spokesperson Becky Robbins, a transformer blew at about 5 a.m. on East Main Street in the village, near the area of the Burger King restaurant. As a result, power was out in Falconer at the four corners and east toward Kennedy including the Horton Hill area, along with Ellicott on Route 60 (N. Main St. Ext.) north of 86. The power was restored at about 7:30 a.m. As a result of the outage, Falconer schools were running on a two hour delay.
During the outage, Ellicott police and members of the Falconer volunteer fire department worked to direct traffic in the village’s main intersections.
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