BOISE, Idaho — Thousands of people in downtown Boise were without power for around 90 minutes today.
According to Idaho Power's website, at one point 5,584 customers did not have electricity. The outage was reported at 11:48 a.m.
Spokeswoman Melissa Thom says the outage occurred at a substation in downtown Boise. That's also the area where most people were impacted.
She says while conducting construction activities substation, a cable was cut inadvertently, causing an unexpected power disruption. The cable was repaired as soon as possible to restore service.
Our apologies to those watching the News at Noon. We too lost power at KTVB. Our station came back on air just after 1 p.m.
Idaho Power reports that by 1:30 p.m. all of its customers had their power back on again.
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