Thousands without power in Madison, Fremont and Jefferson Counties

REXBURG — Thousands of group successful Madison, Fremont and Jefferson Counties are without electrical Friday evening and crews are moving to repair downed powerfulness poles.

Outages are affecting Rocky Mountain Power and Fall River Electric customers. Around 5,600 group successful Madison County were without powerfulness arsenic of 5:15 p.m. and complete 1,000 group were successful nan acheronian successful Fremont and Jefferson Counties.

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“Fall River Electric Cooperative is experiencing a powerfulness outage successful nan Twin Groves/Wilford area of Fremont County. The origin is chartless but could apt beryllium related to nan passing thundershowers successful nan area,” a Fall River Electric Facebook station says. “This outage started astir 4:30 p.m. Members should expect it to past up to 2 hours.”

Crews are responding to aggregate powerfulness poles that are down connected Highway 33 adjacent Newdale that are apt contributing to nan outages.

You tin find nan latest outage accusation for Rocky Mountain here and Fall River Electric here.

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