Road Closures Follow Sunday Evening Storm

Update 7:31 p.m. Police are closing Neiffer Road at Bragg Road in the northern corner of Limerick Township, about half a mile south of Swamp Creek, while crews work on a tree that has fallen on some live electrical wires.

Update 7:15 p.m. Reader Jeesely Soto reported that power was back on at the Limerick Square shopping center.

Reader Michelle Christman reported that a tree or tree limb was down at 4th & Gay St. in the Royersford section of Upper Providence. 

Update, 6:37 p.m. Crews from have reportedly cleared the obstruction at N. Limerick Road near Ridge Pike. The road is open.

Initial story below.

Upper Providence and Limerick police have closed the intersection of Township Line and Linfield-Trappe Roads near the Spring Valley YMCA after a utility pole caught fire.

An unidentified Upper Providence officer asked on Montgomery County public safety radio that PECO be called to the scene after describing the upper third of a utility pole at that location as being in flames.

"The wires are still hot, I can hear them arcing," the officer said, adding that he believed they would fall down.

Limerick Police reported on public safety radio that power was out along S. Township Line Road and in the area of Buckwalter Road due to the burning utility pole.

There were also reports of an unspecified obstruction at the intersection of N. Limerick Road and Ridge Pike in Limerick. PECO had also been notified regarding that situation.

A number of readers on our Facebook page reported they had lost power in Royersford Borough and in southern portions of Limerick Township.