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Semi crash knocks out power to 17,000 in Pierce, Thurston counties

by KING 5 News

KING5.com

Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:52 AM

Updated Monday, Oct 3 at 6:38 AM

SEATTLE – Four substations were knocked offline after a semi-truck hit a power pole early Monday morning. About 17,000 customers lost power.

The outage happened around 2 a.m. As of 6:30 a.m., all but one substation had been restored, but 5,300 customers were still in the dark.

The areas affected include Spanaway, Yelm, Roy and Southeast Pierce County into Thurston County.
 

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