Down and out, temporarily

Grant PUD crews work to restore power to much of Grand Coulee Monday after a pole fire outside Coulee Medical Center caused an outage early in the morning. Most of the business district along Midway Avenue was without power. The hospital kept its emergency room and walk-in clinic open but rescheduled all morning appointments. The hospital announced it had power available again at 1:30 p.m. Grant PUD announced on X (formerly Twitter) that power had been knocked out for 328 customers in "the Coulee City/Electric City" area and that it would take until 2 p.m. to completely restore power. - Scott Hunter photo