{"id":252058,"date":"2026-04-16T04:51:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T04:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/252058\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T04:51:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T04:51:51","slug":"el-paso-electric-workers-injured-as-power-outage-hits-thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/252058\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso Electric workers injured as power outage hits thousands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">EL PASO, Texas (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:KTSM;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;KTSM&quot;}\" class=\"link \">KTSM<\/a>) \u2013 Two El Paso Electric employees were injured and hospitalized following an incident Wednesday, April 15, that also left thousands without power in East El Paso.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The utility confirmed to KTSM 9 News that two workers were hurt. An earlier report from El Paso Electric stated that one one employee was airlifted to a burn center in Lubbock, but they later provided a correction saying, \u201cNo employee was airlifted to Lubbock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The company said their thoughts remain with their employees and their families, and are focused on supporting them during this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The incident sparked a power outage that affected about 5,237 customers. As of 11:50 a.m., 23 outages were impacting Far East and East El Paso, according to the utility\u2019s outage map.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Videos posted on social media showed traffic congestion near Cielo Vista Mall. KTSM 9 News spotted the traffic lights along Hawkins Boulevard flashing yellow.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Traffic lights at Hawkins Blvd. near Cielo Vista Mall (KTSM)\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"899\" height=\"504\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/e1e7ee51d7c4eece768b8818afc41d24.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Traffic lights at Hawkins Blvd. near Cielo Vista Mall (KTSM)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">By around 2:30 p.m., electricity had been restored to customers. An El Paso Electric spokesperson confirmed that the outage was caused by the incident at their substation.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"540\" height=\"720\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/a9eb9874aec8631e1e962f3f70248406.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Video shared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DXKfB9vj-PS\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:online;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;online&quot;}\" class=\"link \">online<\/a> showed the El Paso Fire Department\u2019s aerial support unit, Fire STAR, responding to El Paso Electric\u2019s Montwood Substation on Rich Beem Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) \u2013 Two El Paso Electric employees were injured and hospitalized following an incident Wednesday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[20987,1784,138,32675,140,139,498,14428],"class_list":{"0":"post-252058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-cielo-vista-mall","9":"tag-east-el-paso","10":"tag-el-paso","11":"tag-el-paso-electric","12":"tag-el-paso-headlines","13":"tag-el-paso-news","14":"tag-ktsm","15":"tag-power-outage"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252058","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=252058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}