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Line falls on hay, causes fire and disrupts power

Fire(AP) — Power has been restored to parts of three south-central Kansas counties where the lights went out when a power line fell on a row of hay bales, causing a brief fire.

More than 5,000 people were without power Sunday in Harper, Kingman and Sumner counties.

Officials with Wheatland Electric said about 4 a.m. Monday that all power had been restored.

A spokesman for Wheatland Electric says the line belongs to Westar Energy but supplies power to the company for the three counties.

The outage started about 1 p.m. Sunday when a crossarm on a transmission line near Clearwater failed, causing a conductor to fall.

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