Power outage hits 2,500 Pacific Power customers on Bend’s Westside; almost all restored as repair crews investigate cause
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(Update: Outage drops to six customers)
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – More than 2,500 Pacific Power customers lost power for hours on Bend’s Westside Sunday afternoon. Repair crews restored service to some of those affected within two hours as they investigated the cause and to all but a handful by evening
The utility’s outage map said the first report came just before 2 p.m. and 2,507 customers were affected. The initial restoration estimate was before 5 p.m. The number affected dropped to about 1,300 before 4 p.m. and to just six customers by 6 p.m.
Pacific Power spokesman Simon Gutierrez said he had no additional information to share but assured “we are working to restore power as quickly as possible.”
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