According to Rome Floyd E-911:
Firefighters and Georgia Power was called to the sites — one along the 500 block of North Avenue, another on the 3800 block of Martha Berry Highway and the third in the Brookview subdivision off Burnett Ferry Road — to respond to reports of sparking wires and sporadic power outages that accompanied thunderstorms that hit the area.
The extent of the outages was not immediately available.
Richard B. Russell Regional Airport had recorded 0.15 inches of rain today as of 7 p.m., according to National Weather Service reports.
Isolated thundershowers remain a possibility throughout the evening, the NWS forecasts said.
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