Sitka Suffers Second Outage
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By Sentinel Staff
Power went out across town for over two hours this afternoon when a tree fell on a power line on Green Lake Road, City Administrator Mark Gorman said this afternoon.
Patrons at Ernie's Old Time Saloon sit out this afternoon's power outage. (Sentinel Photo)
The outage began at around 2:45 p.m. and ended at 4:49 p.m. when the city fired up the 12-megawatt diesel generator. It was the second day in a row the city lost power in the afternoon but Gorman said the incidents are unrelated. Wednesday’s outage lasted around 40 minutes and was caused by a problem that occurred while switching to Blue Lake power following routine maintenance.
Today’s outage occurred while the Sentinel was preparing for the press run, resulting in a printing delay of several hours.
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