OGDEN — Crews restored power to an Ogden neighborhood around noon on Thursday after an early-morning outage forced the closure of Mound Fort Junior High School.
Students who arrived to the school early were sent home and those who hadn’t arrived by the time district officials ordered the closure were asked not to come.
Rocky Mountain Power officials told the district that the outage, which was reported around 6:09 a.m., would likely last into the afternoon.
It took crews about six hours to repair a damaged underground power line. Besides the school, the outage only affected about 10 homes, said RMP Spokesman Jeff Hymas.
District Spokeswoman Donna Corby said that no other schools in the district had to shut down, including nearby Gramercy Elementary, which has plenty of natural light and can operate during an outage.
Updated 12:57 p.m.
OGDEN -- Students at Mound Fort Junior High School are being sent home this morning and officials plan to keep the school closed for the remainder of the day due to a power outage affecting homes in the area.
Rocky Mountain Power crews are doing repairs on an underground power line that will take an estimated 6 to 8 hours to fix. Besides the school, the outage is only affecting 10 homes, said RMP Spokesman Jeff Hymas.
Ogden School District officials are asking students who have not yet arrived for classes to stay home.
District Spokeswoman Donna Corby said that no other schools in the district are planning to close, including nearby Gramercy Elementary, which has plenty of natural light and can operate during the outage.
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