A fired-out transformer put off 11,000 homes into darkness in Belgrade and Rome on Saturday morning. Central Maine Power Co. had intended a shorter time devoid of power while employees de-activated a power transformer, but the transformer caught fire, as per the news revealed by the company spokeswoman Gail Rice. "It ought to have been about a 5 hour outage, and it crooked into a 12 hour outage," she reported. "It was a very huge transformer ... We don't don't usually stock those bulky ones, so we had to move quickly to find one." Rice revealed that the company programmed the swap-out for midnight on Friday in order to boast the new transformer in place prior to daylight Saturday.