Workers from Swepco and CLECO were on hand Tuesday morning, July 21, to work at the power plant, located within the city limits of Many on the Natchitoches Highway. A fire at the plant in the early morning hours created a huge outage in Sabine Parish. (Photo by The Sabine Index/Debbie Rose) Between 70 and 80 percent of the homes in Sabine Parish were without electricity in the early morning hours of Tuesday morning, July 21, according to volunteer firemen from Many’s District I Fire Station.

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