The Des Moines Police Department reports that a power outage on Sunday Morning in downtown Des Moines was caused to have been caused by someone damaging equipment at a power station.
Just before 6am on Sunday morning, MidAmerican Energy noticed that suddenly there was a power outage to more than 5,000 customers in the downtown Des Moines area.
MidAmerican investigated, and that’s when the Des Moines Police and Fire Department were called to a power substation around 6:30am. MidAmerican told authorities there was an injured tresspasser in the fencing of the substation.
When medical personnel showed up, they checked the guy out, who had burn injuries covering 20% of his body, worked on him a bit, and then the authorities transported the guy to a Des Moines hospital to be treated…