12:45 p.m.

More than 2,300 members lost power this afternoon when an Ameren transmission line fault interrupted power to Southwestern’s Edwardsville and Fruit Road Substations. Ameren and Southwestern crews have been dispatched and are working to isolate the source of the fault.

The outage, which began at 12:15 p.m., is affecting members from Hamel south to I-70, and from Edwardsville east to Grantfork.

About 50 members north of Pocahontas are also without service. Crews have been dispatched to make repairs.