A wrecker transports a car that was involved in a three-vehicle accident Wednesday night near Hammer's Frozen Custard and Subs along Route 8 in Middlesex Township. The accident, reported at 8:04 p.m., slowed traffic for about an hour.

It was a crazy night for Butler County emergency teams as a severe thunderstorm ripped through the county Wednesday evening, leaving in its wake downed power lines, car accidents, blown transformers, broken poles, fallen trees, fires, and minor flooding.

At 560 Euclid Road a tree was reported on fire to emergency services. An electrical pole also sparked, according to reports.

Two power outages affected more than 10 people in certain areas, according to West Penn Power representatives.

Eyad Gheith, West Penn Power spokesman, said there was an outage of about 17 customers in Slippery Rock Township, 33 customers in West Sunbury and 171 in Clay Township.

“The cause of this was inclement weather due to heavy winds and very wet and saturated ground surface,” Gheith said. “It was a combination of both downed lines and downed poles. We have the West Penn Power crews out there now working as quickly and safely as possible to restore those customers.”

The Slippery Rock outage, which was reported earlier, and was expected to be fixed by 10 p.m., while customers in West Sunbury and Clay township were expected to have their power restored by 11 p.m.

Gheith said the company would continue to have crews on standby throughout the storm.

“We're actively monitoring the service area,” Gheith said. “We have additional crews and support on standby in case the weather gets worse.”

A three-car accident was reported at 8:04 p.m. at 1192 Pittsburgh Road in Middlesex Township. That wreck slowed traffic in the area for about an hour.

Middlesex Volunteer Fire Company Chief Dave Metz said the accident was minor, and no one was injured.

There was also a basement filled with smoke reported at 8:08 p.m. at 138 Doyle Road in Buffalo Township, after a power line fell.

Sarver Volunteer Fire Company Captain Randy Richter said his department responded to the address, where firefighters found a jumble of wires from a downed tree.

“There was a tree down that went onto a service line and ripped out the mast off the house and shorted the wires out going to the breaker box.”

Richter said the shorted wires also caused some smoke in the basement of the home, but there were no flames and no one was injured.

“Just mostly smoke,” he said.

Firefighters worked for about two hours, assisted by Buffalo Volunteer Fire Company and Freeport Volunteer Fire Department.