Tree brings down line, breaks power pole, knocks out power in Dayton neighborhood

As many as 68 Dayton Power & Light customers remain without power this morning because of a fallen tree that took down a line and broke a power pole in the 1900 block of Weaver Street in Dayton Wednesday night.

"We've got some extensive repairs we have to make," said Tom Tatham, DP&L operations director.

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The first call about the outage came in about 5:50 p.m. Thursday, he said.

A DP&L crew was on the scene Thursday. Stay with whio.com for breaking news.

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