Friday, May 23, 2008

Pequot, Pine River Power Outage

More than 2,500 Minnesota Power customers in the Pequot Lakes and Pine River areas were without electricity Thursday afternoon. Officials say equipment failed at a power substation. Spokeswoman Nancy Norr told the Brainerd Dispatch the equipment failed just after 4pm and cut off 2,600 customers. Power was restored to 2,000 customers by 4:40pm, the rest by 5:20pm. Crow Wing Power spokeswoman Char Kinzer said some of her company's customers were affected as well.

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