An electricity provider that serves seven Texas Panhandle counties said it will need to restore approximately 115 miles of power lines that were in the path of wildfires.
The North Plains Electric Cooperative assessed the damage caused by the fires that burned through several of its rural power lines, knocking out electricity to some customers, it said.
“Our lines serve the area surrounding (the city of) Canadian, and there is extensive damage around the outskirts of the town and in the rural areas all the way to Glazier," the company's general manager, Randy Mahannah, said earlier Wednesday.
At least two of the company's employees have lost their homes in the fires, Mahannah said.
As of Wednesday night, nearly 1,000 of the approximately 7,500 homes and businesses served by North Plains Electric were without power, mainly in Hemphill County, which includes the city of Canadian, according to the company's outage tracker.
The company said it aims to have power fully restored by Monday.