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The Associated Press
East Grand Forks, Minn.

Power restored to East Grand Forks after substation problem

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An outage that left half the city of East Grand Forks without power for a couple of hours when a substation exploded has been fixed.

The outage began at about 9 p.m. Thursday and ended around 11:30 p.m., but not before disrupting a high school hockey game when the lights went out at the Civic Center.

The city of East Grand Forks, on the border with North Dakota, has about 8,600 residents.

KFGO-AM reported Friday that residents reported seeing bright flashing lights and fire coming from the substation before the outage.