The outage started at about 6 p.m., affecting the majority of the county. MTEMC crews and technicians were able to restore power to some members over the course of the outage, which ended at approximately 9:17 p.m.

“We are sorry for the inconvenience to our members,” MTEMC VP of Communications Chris Jones said. “MTEMC employees worked hard to restore power as quickly and safely as possible. We will be investigating the causes of the equipment failure over the next few days.