July 14, 2018 - A spokesperson with Deep East Texas Electric Cooperative reports on the large area outage from Saturday morning, July 14, 2018.
Britney Ford reported, "The outage was the result of a transmission line lightning arrestor failure. A lightening arrestor is a device that helps protect the lines from lightning effects during storms. Transmission line equipment can be time consuming to locate and repair safely. As a result, this failure caused SWEPCO's transmission breaker to open which caused the widespread outage affecting Tenaha, Timpson, Prospect, Fitze, Central Heights, Shady Grove and Martinsville. Crews have isolated the issue and are working to make repairs as quickly and as safely as possible. Power has now been restored to all areas with the exception of Tenaha. Your patience and understanding is greatly appreciated as crews located the issue."
