West End power outage linked to Sappho substation

West End residents were without power for nearly five hours Sunday because of a failure at the Sappho substation.

Area residents lost power at about 11:10 a.m., and power was restored at 3:41 p.m., said Mike Howe, spokesman for the Clallam County Public Utility District.

The outage included the communities of Forks, Clallam Bay, Sekiu and LaPush, he said.

Howe said the incident was related to a Bonneville Power Administration planned outage overnight that triggered the later power failure at the Sappho substation.