{"id":21652,"date":"2025-06-27T18:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T00:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/power-outage-lasting-nearly-3%c2%bd-hours-hits-thousands-north-of-bayfield\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:08:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:08:21","slug":"power-outage-lasting-nearly-3%c2%bd-hours-hits-thousands-north-of-bayfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/power-outage-lasting-nearly-3%c2%bd-hours-hits-thousands-north-of-bayfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Power outage lasting nearly 3\u00bd hours hits thousands north of Bayfield"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=54fdb5fe-4cb0-591c-a2da-2f11dc6b89b1&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" alt=\"La Plata Electric Association is in the process of replacing dozens of power poles just north of Durango city limits to Hermosa along U.S. Highway 550 in the Animas Valley. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">La Plata Electric Association is in the process of replacing dozens of power poles just north of Durango city limits to Hermosa along U.S. Highway 550 in the Animas Valley. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>La Plata Electric Association restored power to 2,908 members who lost power for nearly 3\u00bd hours Friday in a widespread outage that hit residents in the Forest Lakes subdivision and the Vallecito and Lemon reservoir areas.<\/p>\n<p>LPEA spokeswoman Amanda Anderson said a Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association substation in Bayfield, which feeds power to an LPEA substation that powers the affected areas, went down at 10:56 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Almost all customers were restored by 2:15 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson said a crew from Tri-State was dispatched around 12:45 p.m. to diagnose and address the outage. Because it was not an LPEA substation that went out, she did not know the cause of the outage.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=cc6bcfd6-d6f8-5585-906d-c306935e421d&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"815\" height=\"607\" alt=\"A power outage affected 2,910 La Plata Electric Association customers north of Bayfield in the Forest Lakes subdivision and Vallecito and Lemon reservoir areas. The outage was reported shortly before 11 a.m. Friday. (Screenshot)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A power outage affected 2,910 La Plata Electric Association customers north of Bayfield in the Forest Lakes subdivision and Vallecito and Lemon reservoir areas. The outage was reported shortly before 11 a.m. Friday. (Screenshot)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lakes, Vallecito and Lemon reservoir areas back online<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,483],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-21652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-la-plata-electric-association"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77401,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21652\/revisions\/77401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21652"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=21652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}