Hall indicated that specific weather conditions influenced the decision to include Summit Park while excluding Park City in the affected area. The measure would only be used as a last resort to help ensure community safety,” the company said.Īreas of Park City are also at elevated risk and may receive preemptive cuts to power during other incidents, but are not expected to be impacted at this time. “As a safety precaution, electricity could be turned off in wildfire high risk areas during extreme weather events for public safety in an effort to prevent a catastrophic wildfire. The utility said in a press release that some areas it serves are at an increased risk of catastrophic wildfires.
“We’ve never reached this level before,” Hall said, referring to several indicators that point to wildfire risk.
This fire watch extends to Wallsburg, Cedar City and Little Cottonwood, as well. Last September, the utility briefly told Cedar City residents to prepare for a potential outage amid high winds, but the utility did not cut power in that instance. Rocky Mountain Power announced this policy at the end of last summer and this is the second time members of the public have been told to prepare to lose power.
“(It would be) almost surgically isolated to areas that may be affected or may be at risk.” “This isn’t going to be a widespread outage,” he said, adding that it isn’t certain that the power will be cut. He noted the disruptive nature of a power outage and said it would only be used as a last resort.
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