Infrastructure and power may be impacted as wildfire season has begun, and it will affect Utahns.
, almost 20,000 customers were without power in West Valley due to a fire threatening the power substation.“We just run the living daylights out of our air conditioner,” Jerry Savage said.“We try to be prepared,” Jerry said.Jona Whitesides with Rocky Mountain Power said, “Now is the time to take a look at your emergency kit, we call it an outage kit. And maybe look at those things that you could have and need.
“It is not a decision we take lightly,” Whitesides said. “We understand that turning off the power does affect people’s lives.” “We’ve been looking at an average of about two and a half hours, and that’s all of them across and some of them have been less than an hour,” he said.
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