Updated - Residential Power Restored, Bellflower Reopened After Pole Fire

Editor's note: This story was updated at 11 a.m.

Power has been restored to nearly 1,300 Mentor residents following a utility pole fire Thursday evening on Bellflower Road, near Lake Catholic High School.

The residents were without power for about two hours, FirstEnergy spokesman Chad Self said.

The Mentor Police Department advised at 4:10 p.m. that people should stay away from Bellflower Road because of the fire. That was around the time the Mentor Fire Department responded to a basement fire caused by an electrical surge at 7510 Bellflower — the same property where the pole was on fire, according to a fire department document forwarded to Patch by Battallion Chief Kevin Edmond.

The fire department forced entry into the home because no one was there. Firefighters extinguished blazes behind a stove and in the basement.

The fire department estimates more than $11,000 in damages to the home. Concord Township assisted Mentor in the fire.

Bellflower Road was shut down in both directions, between Lake Catholic and St. John Vianney, until about 5:50 p.m., a dispatcher said.