Outage impacts nearly 1,500 in Thermopolis Thursday

THERMOPOLIS — Nearly 1,500 Rocky Mountain Power customers in the Thermopolis area were without power for about 4.5 hours Thursday.

According to Rocky Mountain Power Spokesperson Margaret Oler, Thursday morning’s power outage began at 7:02 a.m. and initially impacted 1,468 customers. She said earlier reports of 2,500 customers was due to duplicate reports being received.

Oler said the outage was du...