Power outages across Washoe County affecting more than 4,500 | California News | 2news.com

10:10 P.M. UPDATE:

The number of people without power in Washoe County has climbed to more than 4,500, according to NV Energy’s outage map.

The number of people affected by outages in northwest Reno has decreased, but additional outages have popped up across the county.

The cause remains unknown for most of the outages, though pole-mounted equipment failure is listed as a cause for an outage affecting more than 250 people on West 4th Street.

There is no estimated time for power to be restored for most of the outages.

The outage on West 4th Street was estimated to be resolved by 10 p.m., but is still active on the outage map as of 10:10 p.m.

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ORIGINAL ARTICLE

NV Energy is reporting a power outage in northwest Reno affecting more than 3,800 people.

The power company’s outage map shows the outage off of North McCarran Boulevard west of Kings Row.

The outage began at 7:13 p.m.

There is no estimated time for power to be restored, and the cause of the outage is under investigation.