Wisconsin
Wisconsin town turning off power for hours due to ‘unforeseen emergency’
FILE PHOTO: Electrical energy pylons. ((Photograph by Sean Gallup/Getty Pictures))
(FOX 9) – The Village of Ellsworth in western Wisconsin is shutting off energy to your entire metropolis attributable to an “unexpected emergency,” in response to a metropolis Fb publish.
“Xcel Vitality has notified the Village of Ellsworth that between 4-5 p.m. tonight, all energy in Ellsworth shall be shut off attributable to an unexpected emergency,” the publish on Ellsworth’s Fb web page says.
The Village of Ellsworth says the hope is energy shall be restored someday round 10 p.m.
The kind of emergency was not specified within the publish. Town informed FOX 9 they do not have loads of particulars about what is going on on, solely that it seems like an tools malfunction at a substation so Xcel Vitality wants to switch a component.
FOX 9 has reached out to Xcel Vitality for extra data.
Ellsworth has a inhabitants of greater than 3,300 folks, in response to the 2020 Census.