photo by: Richard Gwin

Lawrence police officer Jason Novotny, directs traffic at Ninth and Mississippi streets around 3:00 p.m., after a power outage caused about 5,000 Westar customers to be without power Friday, June 10, 2011. A substation at Sixth and Kentucky streets had a circuit overload, which caused a switch to fail.

photo by: Richard Gwin

Westar employees carry parts into the substation at Sixth and Kentucky streets after a switch failure caused about 5,000 Westar customers to lose power Friday, June 10, 2011.

photo by: Richard Gwin

Westar employees work on a substation at Sixth and Kentucky streets after a circuit overloaded and failed, causing a power outage about 2:30 p.m. Friday, June 10, 2011.

photo by: Jon Josserand | Special to the Journal-World

A switch failure at the substation at Sixth and Kentucky streets caused power outages affecting more than 5,000 Westar Energy customers in the Old West Lawrence area Friday, June 10, 2011.