Sioux Falls, SD (KELO AM) - A pole fire is to blame for an outage that affected 1,566 Xcel Energy customers on Monday night.
Xcel’s Eric Pauli told KELO Radio that the exact location of the pole that blew up is unknown, only that it knocked power out to much of downtown Sioux Falls. The outage caused all six stations in the KELO family to go off the air briefly before backup power in our building took over.
Power went down shortly after 7PM, and was restored roughly two hours later.