Crime & Safety
Large Power Outage Reported In Pierce County [Update]
About 6,000 were without power Friday afternoon south and east of Tacoma.
SOUTH HILL, WA - About 6,000 Pierce County residents were without power Friday afternoon, but electricity was restored by about 2:45 p.m.
You can follow the outage in real-time on the Tacoma Public Utilities outage page. The utility did not immediately say what caused the outage.
We are currently experiencing a large power outage affecting several thousand customers. We are aware of the outage. We are working to restore power as quickly and as safely as possible. Feel free to follow our progress in real-time: https://t.co/t5M0Qwn9Q9
— Tacoma Public Utilities (@MyTPU) April 6, 2018
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