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More than 12,500 Xcel customers lose power near Federal and Colfax

The Xcel Energy building in downtown Denver (Getty Images)

DENVER (KDVR) — More than 12,500 Xcel Energy customers lost power Wednesday night in Denver, according to the company’s outage map.

The two outages were reported at 6:06 p.m. and 6:40 p.m. near the corner of West Colfax Avenue and Federal Boulevard.

The outage comes amid a Denver heatwave, when the city reached 100 degrees for the fifth time this year.