September 2, 2010 in City

Dust on power line leaves 15,000 in dark

 
Tags:Avista Utilitieselectricitypower outage

Dust collecting on a major transmission line combined with light rain Tuesday night to trigger a power outage affecting 15,000 Avista customers.

The power outage occurred just after 9:30 p.m. Service was restored to about 10,000 customers by 10:03 p.m. on the South Side and in southeast Spokane, but another 5,000 customers waited for several hours for lights to return, an Avista spokeswoman said.

Service was restored to most customers by 3 a.m.

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  • liarsinnews on September 02 at 8:57 a.m.

    During the brown out I tried to call AVISTA to report the outage. Guess what? I was given the business hours and disconnected. Called back again, and the same recording blurted out the business hours and disconnected my call. The third time I called, the recorded voice told me the wait would be 20 minuets. I`m leaving the calls on my cell phone to prove the same number was used 3 times.

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