Power outage hits Boise, Meridian, and Kuna; Idaho Power working on restoration - Idaho News
Power outage hits Boise, Meridian, and Kuna; Idaho Power working on restoration | KBOI
Boise, ID (CBS2) — Idaho Power is working to restore power to 2164 customers Thursday night.
Idaho Power says the outage started just before 7:30 p.m. Thursday and is impacting Boise, Meridian, and Kuna.
The zip codes that are being affected are 83634, 83642, 83705, and 83709.
The cause of the outage is unknown at this time but Idaho Power says they expect to have power restored by 11:30 p.m.
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