SALT LAKE COUNTY — More than 15,000 residents in the Salt Lake Valley were without electricity Monday afternoon, with the outages largely caused by damaged power lines.
Around 4 p.m., Rocky Mountain Power reported 15,121 total customers affected by outages statewide. Of those, 14,995 were clustered in Salt Lake County.
About 12,000 of the impacted customers were in the area of West Jordan and South Jordan. The two main outages were attributed to damaged lines, according to RMP. The others were on the east side near Cottonwood Heights, and its cause is stated as "Multiple outages in the area."
Those outages were restored by about 5:30 p.m. However, around 6,000 customers in Salt Lake City were later hit by outages, along with 1,200 in Cache Valley. By 9 p.m., there were a few hundred scattered throughout Salt Lake and Weber Counties.
The exact cause of the damaged power lines is not yet known.
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