Much of Ferry County woke up without electricity Friday morning after a Bonneville Power Administration line broke on the west side of Sherman Pass, Steve VanSlyke, general manager of Ferry County Public Utility District said.

Power was lost about 8:40 p.m. Thursday. VanSlyke said he hoped power to be restored by late morning Friday. BPA has been working to fix the transmission line.

The outage effected about 3,500 meters in the northern half of Ferry County, including in the county seat, Republic. About 350 of the district’s meters in southern Ferry County were not affected by the power loss.

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