(CENTRALIA, WA) – Equipment failure is being blamed for the power outage that left about 1,600 Centralia City Light customers in the dark on Saturday, some for 24 hours.
City Light Manager M.L. Norton says the initial outage was caused by the failure of a device called a “cut-out” on a power pole on the north end of downtown Saturday morning. It caused a fire on the top of that power pole.
He says there also appears to have been an issue with a breaker at the May Street substation sensing a fault and not closing when they tried to restore power.
Norton says they will be downloading the memory from the relay at the substation to see if was working properly.
