About 26,000 Tacoma Public Utilities customers in East Pierce County lost electricity Friday morning after a large transmission line failed.
An equipment problem sparked the outage, which stretched from Spanaway to the Roy area and darkened schools, stores and intersections.
The outage began about 9:30 a.m. After isolating the problem, utility crews restored power to those affected by 12:30 p.m., the utility reported.
The outage affected several Bethel School District schools, which remained in session during the outage.
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Stacey Mulick: stacey.mulick@thenewstribune.com
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