Power back on for most of Emporia after 'equipment failure' - Emporia Gazette
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The lights are back on for nearly 3,000 Evergy customers in Emporia after an "equipment failure" took power offline for more than two hours Thursday afternoon.
The outage, caused by a downed power line, knocked power out for 2,739 customers in Emporia according to the Evergy Outage Map. The outage was first reported just before 3:30 p.m.
The outage stretched along U.S. Highway 50 from just west of Prairie Street and east to Sylvan Street, along parts of 12th Avenue, down Commercial Street, and south on Highway 99 past the David Traylor Zoo.
As of 5:40 p.m., about 56 customers were still reported to be without power and Evergy was "reassessing" the situation.
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