Roughly 1,500 Flathead Electric Cooperative members in Lakeside lost power Friday morning after an equipment problem caused a power pole to burn.

Flathead Electric spokeswoman Wendy Ostrom-Price said the first outage was reported at about 7:30 a.m. and that most members had their power restored within a couple hours, with all power restored by midafternoon.

While the exact cause of the outage is still being determined, Ostrom-Price said there were high winds in the morning that may have blown pieces of energized equipment attached to power lines together, causing the pole to catch fire.

Another outage in late December affected roughly 6,000 members in the Bigfork, Somers and Swan Lake areas after an equipment failure caused a transformer to blow. Most of the members affected by that outage had their power restored within four hours.