Sunrise Stories: More Lightning Strikes, and Lego Salt Lake City
KDXU Sunrise Stories for August 1, 2023. More lightning strikes across Southern Utah, another congressional debate coming to St. George, and Lego Salt Lake City?
power outage
Intermittent 911 service in Washington County.
Due to this weekend storm, Verizon wireless is experiencing a power outage.
What does that mean to you?
It means that you may not be able to reach our dispatch center by dialing 911 until power is restored.
We ask that if you do need to reach emergency services, that you dial our nonemergency number, which is 435–627–4300, or use a phone from another carrier.
We will keep you updated.
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Utah man who shot electric substation sentenced to prison
A Utah man who hoped to cause a major West Coast power outage is heading to prison for causing damage to a Kane County electric substation.
Stephen McRae of Escalante was sentenced to eight years in prison for shooting out cooling fins at the substation in 2016...
UPDATE: Many in Iron County still without power a day later
UPDATE: Power restored
It was a long, hot and frustrating weekend for nearly two-thousand residents of Iron County who were without electricity.
A catastrophic failure at the Parowan Valley Substation early Saturday morning, resulting in a black-out in Parowan, Parowan Valley, Paragonah and the town Brian Head...
Roughly 2100 customers in Parowan, Paragonah and Brian Head are currently without electricity and officials say the outage may persist until Sunday evening.
“We are in the process of gathering necessary equipment from outside facilities such as transformers and generators to assist with restoration efforts,” Rocky Mountain Power stated in a release Saturday afternoon. “We apolog...