The storm that rolled through the county Thursday evening sent first responders to scenes around the county and left some residents without electricity.

A fallen tree trapped a woman in her vehicle on Chicora Road in Fairview Township on Thursday night.

The Chicora Volunteer Fire Department, which was dispatched at 11:13 p.m., extricated the woman, whose name was unavailable. There was no medical transport. Crews cleared the scene at 12:19 a.m.

A lightning strike caused a dryer vent to catch fire earlier in the night at 102 Jenelle Lane in Summit Township.

The Lick Hill Volunteer Fire Department was dispatched at 7:07 p.m. and cleared the scene at 8:10 p.m.

An apparent weather-related electrical issue caused the sign to catch fire outside the Golf Etc. store on North Main Street Extension in Butler Township.

After being dispatched at 10:15 p.m., the Mercer Road Volunteer Fire Company cleared at 11:25 p.m.

Power outages

West Penn Power spokesman Todd Meyers said that about 1,200 customers in Butler County lost power at about midnight, as thunderstorms and heavy rain continued to blanket the region.

The biggest batch of outages, which Meyers said affected about 650 customers in Butler, were restored by 3:23 a.m.

The company also had to repair a cross arm on a utility pole on Diamond Street which was struck by lightning.

Power outages affecting Butler County residents continued into this morning, with more than 300 households — the majority in Allegheny, Connoquenessing and Slippery Rock townships — without power according to West Penn Power. Meyers said about 200 customers in Parker were without power after a large tree fell and brought down three spans of wire. Crews had been working to fix that outage since shortly after midnight, Meyers said.

The company said customers in Adams, Center, Donegal, Forward, and Middlesex townships; and the boroughs of Callery, Chicora, Connoquenessing, Prospect and Slippery Rock also were affected. But those outages were scattered and, in general, affected five or fewer households in each municipality, according to the company’s website.

Central Electric Cooperative also was reporting scattered outages in Summit and Jefferson townships, according to the company’s website.

The National Weather Service office in Pittsburgh issued a hazardous weather outlook this morning, advising residents that thunderstorms throughout the region could produce heavy downpours and enough rain to cause localized flooding.