Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
By TOM LAVENTURE
Ironwood — An equipment failure in Ironwood led to a power outage over much of the region miday Monday.
An Xcel Energy map showed there were 26 outages in the area affecting 8,574 customers from Saxon and Gurney in Iron County, Wisconsin in the west, to Berglund in Ontonagon County to the east, and much of the Upper Peninsula communities to the south.
“We had equipment failure in our Ironwood substation,” said Christine Ouellette, senior media relations representative with Xcel Energy’s Michigan and Wisconsin office in Eau Claire. “Around 8,500 customers lost power around 11:30 a.m. and were restored around 1 p.m.”
The power outage started in Ironwood at approximately 11:35 a.m. The power was restored at 12:17 p.m.
A report on the Ironwood Public Safety Department’s Facebook page said the traffic control lights were out in several places along U.S. 2. The public safety office phones were also not working during the outage and calls were directed to Central Dispatch.
