Power for 4,400 in Rathdrum, Post Falls restored
Wed., Aug. 11, 2010
Almost 4,400 Avista customers in the Rathdrum and Post Falls area had their power restored around 10 p.m., after a short outage.
The cause of the outage was a fire on the pole that holds the transmission line at a substation, said Hugh Imhof, a spokesman for Avista.
The cause of the fire is unknown at this point, but it may be a number of factors such as dust, a squirrel or bird, Imhof said.
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