DOWNED LINE CAUSES POWER OUTAGE

CLOVIS (KSMX) – A power outage caused more than 1,000 people to be in the dark for a time on New Year’s Day. Xcel Energy said in a statement that a downed power line was to blame, the outage lasted more than an hour starting just before 11am. Company Spokesman Wes Reeves said that the downed line was in the 1600 block of East Brady. There was no additional information provided as to why the line was downed.