A major power outage briefly affected the Corvallis area Tuesday afternoon.
At 2 p.m. Tuesday, Pacific Power said approximately 12,887 customers were in the dark.
A spokesperson for the utility told KLCC that power was restored within about 15 minutes for the majority of customers, although a handful of outages remained in the Albany area. The spokesperson said the cause of the outage was under investigation.
Corvallis Police issued an alert during the outage advising residents to only use 911 for emergencies and to avoid calling police dispatch to report outages.
The Benton County Sheriff's Office issued a similar plea for residents to only use 911 for emergencies.
"Our dispatch center is currently being inundated with calls related to the power outage," the office said in a statement posted to its social media pages.
Both agencies urged drivers to remember that traffic lights without power should be treated the same as a 4-way stop sign.