Article: Lines down = lights out: Southeast Twin Falls, Kimberly and Hansen lose power.

Byline: Jared S. Hopkins

Jan. 10--TWIN FALLS -- About 4,000 customers of Idaho Power Co. in southeast Twin Falls lost electricity Tuesday afternoon after a truck knocked out a power line. Customers in Kimberly and Hansen also lost power. More than 500 customers were still without power Tuesday evening, but the problem was expected to be fixed before Wednesday morning. At about 3:21 p.m., the bed of a Twin Falls Canal Co. service truck caught a wire and broke a wooden power line pole near the intersection of Kimberly Road and Freightway Street, said Mike Osterhoht, a foreman for Idaho Power. The worker, who was not hurt, had just finished filling a ...

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