{"id":351907,"date":"2026-06-26T21:15:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T21:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/351907\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T21:15:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T21:15:58","slug":"truck-crash-knocks-out-power-to-2000-in-northeast-el-paso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/351907\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck crash knocks out power to 2,000+ in Northeast El Paso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Over a dozen power outages are affecting El Paso on Friday afternoon, with the biggest one in the Northeast caused by a crash.<\/p>\n<p>According to El Paso Electric&#8217;s power outage map, as of 2:40 p.m., there are 14 power outages in the Borderland, affecting 3,182 customers&#8211; with the biggest one being near Loop 375 and Rushing Road and affecting 2,357.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Outage map. Credit: EP Electric\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/27c52d10-2846-4d70-be37-c02c5920997b-Screenshot20260626144548.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Outage map. Credit: EP Electric<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the utility said that the big outage was caused by a truck that hit a power line near Woodrow Bean and Girl Scout Way.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Truck crash knocks out power to 2,000+ in Northeast El Paso. Credit: TxDOT\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/resources\/media2\/16x9\/704\/986\/0x42\/90\/f955bbe3-dc03-4bf4-92b1-ae99d38bff19-570e1f5301a44b1182142d70064172af.jfif\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Truck crash knocks out power to 2,000+ in Northeast El Paso. Credit: TxDOT<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson noted that crews are working to restore electricity safely and quickly, estimating power will be back at around 3:45 p.m.<\/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":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Over a dozen power outages are affecting El Paso on Friday afternoon, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-351907","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\/351907","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=351907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}