Update: Power Restored in Vilonia
By: KARK 4 News
Updated: July 10, 2012
Update (4:00 p.m.):
Entergy officials tell KARK 4 News that all customers now have power.
The outage was blamed on a wiring problem, not a transformer issue as first thought.
Update (7:50 a.m.):
Entergy officials tell KARK 4 News that most customers from the Vilonia outage have been switched to another feeder and are back on. There are still a few outside of Viloinia they are still trying to switch.
7:15 a.m., July 10:
Power is being restored for residents in Faulkner County.
As of 7:15 a.m., roughly 4,400 customers were still in the dark.
Entergy Spokesperson, Julie Munsell, says the outages were caused by a transformer issue, specifically a wire that runs to the transformer.
It's the same transformer blamed in a power outage last week.
You can look up outages in the area by clicking here.
5:50 a.m., July 10:
Power is out again for residents in the Faulkner County town of Vilonia. As of 5:50 a.m., roughly 7,000 customers were in the dark.
Immediately after the outage, residents began expressing frustration to KARK 4 News via social media.
There's no word yet what's to blame for the outage.
You can look up outages in the area by clicking here.
Entergy officials tell KARK 4 News that all customers now have power.
The outage was blamed on a wiring problem, not a transformer issue as first thought.
Update (7:50 a.m.):
Entergy officials tell KARK 4 News that most customers from the Vilonia outage have been switched to another feeder and are back on. There are still a few outside of Viloinia they are still trying to switch.
7:15 a.m., July 10:
Power is being restored for residents in Faulkner County.
As of 7:15 a.m., roughly 4,400 customers were still in the dark.
Entergy Spokesperson, Julie Munsell, says the outages were caused by a transformer issue, specifically a wire that runs to the transformer.
It's the same transformer blamed in a power outage last week.
You can look up outages in the area by clicking here.
5:50 a.m., July 10:
Power is out again for residents in the Faulkner County town of Vilonia. As of 5:50 a.m., roughly 7,000 customers were in the dark.
Immediately after the outage, residents began expressing frustration to KARK 4 News via social media.
There's no word yet what's to blame for the outage.
You can look up outages in the area by clicking here.
Original Story from July 6:
Overconsumption of electricity gets the blame for a Vilonia power outage that started overnight.
Entergy Arkansas says the lights went out around 2:30 this morning and power crews were dispatched to the scene to get them back on as soon as possible.
Power was restored to all customers by about one o'clock this afternoon.
