Power outage attributed to equipment failure

TEKOA – Local areas lost power on Sunday, July 7, affecting over 800 Avista customers.

According to Avista employee David Vowels, 882 Avista customers in the Tekoa and Oakesdale areas experienced a disruption of electric service at 7:30 p.m.

“The cause of the outage was equipment failure,” said Vowels.

Vowels reports that the equipment failure took place inside the Avista substation and shut down power from Willard to Oakesdale, Lone Pine and other customers along Highway 27 and 274.

According to Vowels, Avista crews responded immediately to make the necessary repairs. At 1:30 a.m. on Monday,...