Power outage affecting customers in southeast Colorado Springs

COLORADO SPRINGS — Crews from Colorado Springs Utilities are working to restore power to the roughly 4500 customers in the southeast part of the city that were affected earlier this afternoon. Just about 350 customers are still without service in the area near Airport Rd. between S. Academy and Powers. Crews are hoping to have everyone taken care of by 8:00 p.m. tonight. Another outage in the Security-Widefield area is currently affecting another 683 customers in the area south and west of Grinnell Blvd. and Bradley Rd. Exactly what caused the outages is unknown at this time.