Power restored to most impacted customers after outage on U.S. Air Force Academy

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) — Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) said early Monday afternoon that power had been restored to all but a handful of customers after an outage that impacted nearly 1,100 customers on the U.S. Air Force Academy.

The outage was reported by CSU on social media just after 10 a.m.

A spokesperson for the U.S. Air Force Academy provided 11 News with the following statement regarding the outage:

“The U.S. Air Force Academy and Colorado Springs Utilities are working to resolve a power outage that affected parts of the installation earlier this morning. Academy operations continue as normal. Academy District 20 schools on the installation are also continuing operations as normal. No buildings were evacuated. We are investigating the cause of the outage.”

Just before noon, Colorado Springs Utilities shared that all but 10 customers had had their power restored. According to CSU, the cause of the outage was “a pole fire caused by a lightning strike.”

As of this article’s last update, crews were working to restore power to five customers, according to CSU’s outage map.

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