
Line Department Supervisor Dale Stevens said the outage began at about 3:15 p.m. and power was restored at just before 5 p.m.
The outage affected an area in east Deming and Luna County that included the detention center, Starmax and several motels.
Stevens said Pine Street east of Country Club Road was affected, all the way to about one mile south of Highway 549 – or the Old Las Cruces Highway – at Franklin Road.