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Power failure blacks out five western states
A large scale power outage spread from eastern Oregon to western Wyoming late Friday night, affecting southern Idaho, most of Utah, eastern Oregon, western Wyoming and southwestern Montana. The Boise Idaho Power dispatcher cited a 230000 volt line west of Boise as the cause though details were unclear. Utah Power and Light described the outage as falling tenpins, noting interconnection kept spreading the failure. Some areas switched to emergency power while Idaho state police radio system lost power for over 80 minutes.
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