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Power outage reported in West Omaha

WOWT · last updated

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) — Some Omaha Public Power District customers are without power Thursday morning.

On its outage map at about 10:30 a.m., OPPD reported a power outage near 168th and Blondo streets in West Omaha affecting about 82 customers.

An OPPD spokesperson told First Alert 6 early Thursday afternoon that they hadn’t been notified about any sort of emergency situation, but did note that the outage had occurred just after 10 a.m.

OPPD has crews out testing cables to try to pinpoint the cause. Sometimes a fuse or transformer going out can make a loud noise, but that hasn’t yet been determined to be what happened Thursday morning in that area.

“We’ve gotten reports of some digging in the area, but the contractors who are working out there tell us they haven’t hit anything,” OPPD said.

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