County Emergency Operations: Many remain without power; no one stayed at Red Cross shelter last night

The Kootenai County Emergency Operations Center issued the following update and provided additional information regarding ongoing power outages and storm damage.

The American Red Cross opened a shelter for residents impacted by the power outages at the Coeur d’Alene Bible Church, located at 5350 N 4 th Street. However, last night they had no one stay at the shelter. They have heat, power, light snacks and showers available after 5 p.m. It will be open today and but they are currently assessing the need to keep this shelter beyond today.

The Kootenai County Emergency Operation Center’s information line will be shut down at noon today.

Local utility companies continue to work around the clock to restore services. Any calls about power restoration, down power lines or power outages should be directed to your utility company outage lines:

Avista Utilities – 1-800-227-9187

Kootenai Electric Cooperative – 1-877-744-1055

Current outages:

Avista: Kootenai County - 6,766, 12% of total services

KEC: Kootenai County - 5,551 services out

Ben Wolfinger, Sheriff

By: Lieutenant Stu Miller