Power out in Havre area

More than 2,000 NorthWestern Energy Havre customers lost power this morning around 9 a.m., a spokesperson for the energy company said.

NorthWestern Energy spokesman Butch Larcombe said this morning there is no word yet on what has caused the outage, but crews are at the substation east of Havre looking into the problem.

“Looks like we have lost power in out eastside substation. Still reporting 1,724 customers without power on city’s east side and stretching into rural area towards Lohman,”

Larcombe wrote in an email to the Havre Daily News at 9:49 a.m. The number of customers was raised to 2,078 at 10:23 a.m.

The outage affected, Havre High School, although a representative of the school said it was only out about five minutes.

As of 9:50 a.m., Sunnyside Intermediate School was still out of power.

Watch for updates at http://www.havredailynews.com.