About 1,700 homes and businesses in South Salem lost power after a vehicle crashed into a utility pole just before noon on Jan. 21, according to Portland General Electric.
The outage led the Salem Public Library to evacuate its main branch. It will remain closed for the rest of the day, the city said in a social media post. The West Salem branch is still open but did not have internet access as of 1:45 p.m.
Librarian Bridget Esqueda said the building experienced two outages including the prolonged one. It was after the second outage that the library decided to evacuate…