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<H1>Breaking News</H1>
<H2>Megaload knocks out power at Pierce, Weippe</H2>
<P class=date>April 12, 2011, 11:36 am</P>
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<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 5px">About 1,300 homes and businesses in the Pierce and
Weippe areas were without power for almost five hours this morning after an
Imperial Oil test module hit a line supporting a transmission wire. <BR><BR>The
outage started at about 1:45 a.m. following the incident on U.S. Highway 12, two
miles east of Orofino, said Debbie Simock, a spokeswoman for Avista.<BR><BR>The
megaload hit a supporting line triggering a pole holding it up to break and then
the supporting line hit a transmission line that shorted, said Simock and a
spokesman for the Idaho Transportation Department. <BR><BR>Traffic was delayed
one hour instead of the 15 minutes that ITD is allowing, said Adam Rush, a
spokesman for the transportation department. <BR><BR>The over-sized shipment is
now parked at milepost 61, 13 miles short of Kooskia where it was supposed to
arrive by 5:30 this morning, Rush said. <BR><BR>"No one was hurt," said Pius
Rolheiser, a spokesman for Imperial Oil. <BR><BR>No decision has been made about
whether the test module will continue this evening on the next leg of its trip
to Montana on U.S. 12, Rush said. <BR><BR>Rush's employer is waiting for a
report from Mammoet, Imperial Oil's hired hauler, about what happened before it
makes any decisions, Rush said.<BR><BR>---<BR><BR><EM>For more on this story
read Wednesday's Tribune or visit www.lmtribune.com.</EM> </P></DIV><FONT
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