High winds snapped a power pole and started a fire on the south side of Hennessey school’s vo-ag classroom/shop building at about 9 p.m. Wednesday.

It left 151 OG&E customers without electricity for the next 24 hours after a homeowner allegedly twice refused to give workers permission to go through their property to make repairs, said Mark Hamm, Enid OG&E field supervisor.

The home is located immediately south of the ag building on Mitchell Road at Oklahoma Avenue and the homeowner’s fence is between their home and the ag building.

Hamm said their site report shows that the homeowner was also without electricity.

The Hennessey Fire Department report shows that OG&E’s Hennessey representative, Steve Lorenz, was on site to make temporary repairs Wednesday night, but one of the homeowners refused to allow access to the gate on their property.

OG&E’s work report also shows Lorenz was there shortly after they received a report at 9:03 p.m. A work crew in the area called the homeowner at about 1 a.m. to make repairs, and were again denied permission to be on the property, said Hamm.

Only when a field crew went to the house Thursday at about 9 a.m. did one of the homeowners open the gate and allow workers on the premises, said Hamm.

“I know there are a lot of people in Hennessey who were unhappy,” said Hamm, “but we had a lot of problems last night (Wednesday) due to the 50 mph winds, so we had to keep moving to get the lights on at other places.”

Hennessey firefighter Kaleb Hladik, who is also an electrician, was near the fire scene when the call came in, then firefighters Dustin Munroe and Logan Macy arrived, said Fire Chief Bert Gritz. The fire report also shows that the firefighters ran hoses over the homeowner’s fence to extinguish the fire, Gritz said.