Power returns to Adak

By KIAL News

Unalaska, AK – The community of Adak was able to turn the lights on again at midnight Tuesday night after a day and a half without power. Phone service on the island was still down as of this afternoon, so residents of Adak couldn't be contacted. But other basic services have been restored, according to Sandra Moller, the president and CEO of Aleut Enterprise LLC, which manages economic development on Adak.

Although other power failures in the Aleutians and Bristol Bay this winter have been the result of fuel shortages, Adak's appears to have been a technical glitch. Moller says the outage was triggered by problems with the switching gear at the community's power plant.

The Adak Fisheries processing plant, which has its own generator, wasn't affected by the outage.