ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — A squirrel got caught on a power line which caused a fire near 4th Avenue and 25th Street on Tuesday, leaving hundreds of people without power in the Illinois side of the Quad Cities.
According to a MidAmerican Energy spokesperson, there are 708 people in Rock Island who lost power due to an outage which was reported at 12:32pm.
Power was fully restored for all customers around 2:10pm.