MILAN — A fire on a utility pole on Route 16 near the Nansen Ski Jump Sunday afternoon left some Eversource customers without power for over four hours.

Eversource spokeswoman Kaitlyn Woods said at about 4:19 p.m., the failure of an insulator on the crossarm of the pole caused a small fire.

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