Officials warn NV Energy's broad emergency shutdowns can create secondary crises
The Elko County fire chief told commissioners that NV Energys emergency de-energization during the Spring Creek Fire cut power across a wide area, affecting hospitals, schools and fire stations and raising public-safety concerns.
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Elko County's fire chief told commissioners that NV Energy's emergency de-energization policy can shut power over a broad area and that in the Spring Creek event "the substation that they have to shut it off is on Last Chance Road in Elko. And so that shuts off from Elko all the way to Lemoille. And that includes the hospital, the high school, all of our fire stations."
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