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Power outage affecting thousands of Tooele residents

TOOELE, Utah (KUTV) — Thousands of residents across Tooele County were left without power Saturday morning.

Officials of Rocky Mountain Power reported that 1,861 residents of Tooele and surrounding areas had lost power as of 6:19 a.m. on March 2.

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At that time, crews were already out working to restore services to those affected.

The cause of the outage is under investigation.

RMP officials estimated the time of restoration to be 10 a.m.

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This outage comes amid a High Wind Warning in place for multiple cities across Utah including Tooele, with winds gusting up to 70 miles per hour.

Just hours prior, around midnight Saturday, over 3,000 Park City residents were left in the dark. Their power has since been restored.

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