ST. GEORGE — An outage has knocked out power to 621 customers in the southern area of St. George, including the entire Bloomington area and the southeastern-most portion of the city.
Updated 8:30 p.m., Dixie Power reports power was restored as of 8:30 p.m.
A representative for Dixie Power, which handles electricity in the area, was not available. A recorded message on a Dixie Power phone line said that “workers are working to restore service as quickly as possible” and that there is no estimation for when power would be restored.
There was no reason provided for the outage.
Residents in Bloomington reported that electricity went out at approximately 5:30 p.m. While it has come back on at times, it has mostly remained off since then.
This is a developing story.
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Chris Reed serves as a reporter for St. George News, where he has been honored with several awards from the Society of Professional Journalists for his work, including first-place accolades. He started his journalism career as a sports reporter and editor in Southern California where he once compared shoe sizes with Shaquille O'Neal and exchanged mix tapes with members of the Los Angeles Kings. After growing up in the San Fernando Valley learning karate skills from Mr. Miyagi and spending a decade in Las Vegas mostly avoiding the casinos, he came to St. George for love and married his soulmate, a lifetime Southern Utah resident. He is the proud father of two boys, his youngest a champion against both autism and Type 1 diabetes.