Power Outage Reported in Chadron Friday Afternoon – KCSR / KBPY

According to Chadron residents, businesses, and NPPD’s power outage map, a power outage occurred in Chadron just before 3:30 Friday afternoon.
NPPD’s website also claims two customers were affected. Although the exact area and total number remains unknown, eyewitness accounts and social media posts claim power was out at Chadron’s Walmart location for up to 30 minutes. Power also briefly went off at the Chadron Community Hospital.

The incident remains under review by NPPD crews, but the loss of power was “animal or human caused”, according to nppd.com.
As of 7:30 PM (MDT) Friday, no posts had been made by official NPPD accounts on X or Facebook.
This is a developing story and more information will be released as it is made available.