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Insulator cause of Falls City power outage
03/16/2020

(KLZA)-- Two early morning power outages occurred in Falls City Monday. 

Falls City Utility  Superintendent Ray Luhring told MSC    News the first outage around 4:00  A.M.  Occurred when an insulator burned up at the OPPD substation by the Falls  City Power Plant.        

When the outage occurred Falls City started to generate power.  

Shortly before 7:00 A.M., the second outage occurred when an OPPD employee accidentally opened a switch cutting the power off.

Repairs have been made,  and OPPD is once again supplying power to Falls City. 


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