{"id":126498,"date":"2026-01-17T00:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T00:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/126498\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T00:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T00:38:08","slug":"over-10000-customers-without-power-in-west-el-paso-and-surrounding-areas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/126498\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 10,000 customers without power in West El Paso and surrounding areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 El Paso Electric reported dozens of power outages in the Borderland, affecting thousands of people, mostly in West El Paso and surrounding areas. <\/p>\n<p>According to EP Electric&#8217;s outage map, dozens of outages were reported on Friday at around 1 p.m., impacting over 10,000 customers in the neighborhoods close to Mesa Hills Drive, Sunland Park Drive and McNutt Road.<\/p>\n<p>EP Electric estimates that power will return at around 4:30 p.m. Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Drivers in the area have even reported traffic lights not working.<\/p>\n<p>No word yet on what caused the power outages.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/local\/el-paso-lifts-boil-water-notice-addresses-system-vulnerabilities?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Water main break exposes vulnerabilities in El Paso&#8217;s 1950s-era system design<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/local\/el-paso-water-lifts-boil-notice-for-northeast-and-central-areas-as-water-deemed-safe-texas-tx?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">El Paso Water lifts boil notice for Northeast and Central areas as water deemed safe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 El Paso Electric reported dozens of power outages in the Borderland, affecting thousands&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":{"0":"post-126498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-el-paso","9":"tag-el-paso-headlines","10":"tag-el-paso-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}