power outage

More than a thousand Douglas County PUD customers have power after an outage in East Wenatchee Sunday afternoon. PUD spokesperson Meaghan Vibbert says the outage started at a substation. "Turns out that there was a bad breaker controller," said Vibbert ...

A squirrel is to blame after a power outage in East Wenatchee Saturday cut power to approximately 1,600 customers. Douglas County PUD says the outage began around 10:00 a.m. and last about an hour or so before power was restored. No details were posted on their Twitter page as to where the squirrel was found, but it is known to happen that they can knock out power ...

Several hundred residents were without power starting late Sunday night due to multiple pole fires. Chelan PUD Senior Communications Strategist Rachel Hansen says they got the first report a little after 10. "At the worst of it we had about 900 customers without power ...

Saturday night as the Valley underwent a heavy storm, a power outage was reported in Eagle Rock, Easy Street, Lower Sunnyslope, Old Monitor and Sleepy Hollow. According to Chelan PUD, the outage affected about 1100 customers as crews worked to restore power...

About 2,700 Chelan PUD customers were without power this morning in Wenatchee for about an hour. Chelan PUD did not list a cause of the outage but noted that it ran from Spokane Street to the south all the way up to 5th Street to the north. It also ran from River to Okanogan Street east to west...

About 700 Douglas County PUD customers in Bridgeport were without power for nearly four hours last night. The outage began a little after 7:00 p.m. due to a downed power line on Fairview Avenue. The PUD says inclement weather caused two lines to come down...