Just before 7 a.m. this morning emergency personnel responded to the corner of Iowa and South street in Knoxville for a report of smoke where a tree limb was making contact with a power line.

Soon afterwards, flames were reported. Knoxville Fire and Rescue, Knoxville Police Department and MidAmerican Energy responded to the scene. MidAmerican Energy reports 56 residents were impacted by the outage.