By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY
Salina Post
Electricity has been restored to nearly all of the approximate 15,000 customers who lost power Saturday afternoon in Salina.
A spokesperson for Evergy told Salina Post that as of 2:20 p.m. electricity had been restored to all but about 1,000 customers in northeast Salina. Those customers were to have their electricity restored shortly, she said.
A piece of equipment at an Evergy substation failed, knocking out power for the approximately 15,000 customers, the spokesperson said. The outage stretched from northeast Salina to southern parts of the city.
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Electricity went out for approximately 13,000 Evergy customers in Salina shortly after 1:30 p.m. Saturday.
A spokesperson for Evergy told Salina Post that personnel were running the power lines to determine the cause of the outage.
Power was restored to some locations in southeast Salina shortly after the outage occurred, however, the Evergy spokesperson told Salina Post just before 2 p.m. that about 13,000 customers in Salina were still without electricity.
We will update this story as more information becomes available.