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Thousands of Utahns without power amid record heat

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IVINS, Utah — Clusters of power outages across the state of Utah have left thousands and thousands of households without electricity.

On its website, Rocky Mountain Power's outage map shows major outages impacting upwards of 1,000 customers in Box Elder, Weber, Salt Lake, Utah, Iron and Washington counties.

In total, there were 19,000 at one point Sunday evening. By 5:30 a.m., there were still around 3,100.

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The cause of most outages is still listed as under investigation, and the estimated time of restoration is early Monday morning for most.

The largest was in Ivins, where RMP said a transmission line was damaged and crews are working to repair it. There were about 5,700 customers impacted at one point. By 5:30 a.m., that number was down to 0.