11:30 a.m. UPDATE
Entergy has identified the cause of the west Little Rock power outage that left 8,000 customers in the dark Tuesday morning, according to a news release.
An unauthorized person went into an Entergy substation on Kanis Road near Chenal Parkway and made contact with energized equipment, according to the release. That person was injured and transported to a local hospital, said spokeswoman Sally Graham.
Technicians repaired the damage, and power was restored to all residents by 9:30 a.m., according to the release.
Entergy is working with local law enforcement on the case, according to the release.
Read Wednesday's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for full details.
9:30 a.m. UPDATE
Power has been restored to all of the affected customers, according to Entergy spokeswoman Sally Graham. The cause of the outage has not been identified.
8 a.m. UPDATE
Power has been restored to one cluster of outages that had affected Entergy customers north and south of Kanis Road west of Bowman Road.
The utility said about 1,400 customers remained in the dark at 8 a.m., including many along Chenal Parkway west of Kanis Road.
7:30 a.m. UPDATE
The number of Entergy customers without power in west Little Rock has been reduced to about 2,500.
The utility's online outage map showed some areas had had power restored since 7 a.m., when the outages numbered more than 4,000. There were still large clusters of customers in the dark north and south of Kanis Road west of Bowman Road and along Chenal Parkway west of Kanis Road.
There was no immediate word on the cause.
7 a.m. UPDATE
Around 4,334 people in west Little Rock are without power Tuesday because of an early morning outage, according to Entergy spokeswoman Sally Graham.
Electricity has been down at several different locations in the western part of the city, including along stretches of Kanis Road and Chenal Parkway, since around 3 a.m., Graham said. The initial outage affected around 8,000 residents, and employees in the field have been working since then to restore power to the remaining customers, Graham said.
The cause of the outage is still unknown, Graham said, and employees have had some issues in the field getting power restored. The remaining 4,334 people without power can expect everything to be back on by around 10 a.m., Graham said.
Residents can see where the affected areas of the city are located on Entergy's outage map.