Clearwater Power to have planned outage Saturday afternoon for emergency repairs

Clearwater Power members north of the Orofino area will experience a 2-hour power outage tomorrow, Dec. 27 from 2-4 p.m.

This outage is required to safely make needed emergency repairs. It impacts about 575 Clearwater Power members. Impacted members have been notified directly by a phone call or e-mail notification, according to their Facebook post.

Also, Hillcrest Aviation helicopters were seen Friday flying to assist Clearwater Power with some of the infrastructure repairs needed following the wind storm Dec. 17.