{"id":170891,"date":"2026-02-19T05:33:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T05:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/170891\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T05:33:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T05:33:19","slug":"10000-in-las-cruces-without-power-for-almost-an-hour-due-to-failing-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/170891\/","title":{"rendered":"10,000+ in Las Cruces without power for almost an hour due to failing equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS CRUCES, N.M. (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Several power outages left over 10,000 people in Las Cruces without electricity on Wednesday morning after crews replaced a transformer.<\/p>\n<p>According to the El Paso Electric power outage map, dozens of outages were recorded in Las Cruces, most of them near E. Amador Avenue and N. Main Street. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"EP Electric power outage map showing the dozens of outages around Las Cruces. Feb. 18, 2026. Credit: EP Electric\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1a5a20f7-f70e-4dcf-887e-c35dc8d909ce-543436465.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>EP Electric power outage map showing the dozens of outages around Las Cruces. Feb. 18, 2026. Credit: EP Electric<\/p>\n<p>The map legend said the outages started at around 9: 30 a.m., expected power to be restored at around 1:45 p.m.; however, by 10:15 a.m. power had been restored. <\/p>\n<p>An EP Electric spokesperson said the outage was caused by a failing voltage transformer at one of the Las Cruces substation.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.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":"LAS CRUCES, N.M. (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Several power outages left over 10,000 people in Las Cruces without electricity on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-170891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170891","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=170891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}