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Power restored to nearly 8,000 customers in south Las Vegas

(Las Vegas Review-Journal)

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By MIKE SHORO LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

November 24, 2016 - 10:37 pm

Power’s been restored after a large outage in the south valley Thursday night.

The outage was caused by equipment issues, NV Energy reported, and crews returned power to residents by 10:30 p.m.

About 8:30 p.m., NV Energy reported about 7,800 customers were without power near South Decatur Boulevard and West Cactus Avenue in the Southern Highlands community.

Contact Mike Shoro at mshoro@reviewjournal.com. Follow @mike_shoro on Twitter.

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