WARSAW, Ind. (WNDU) – Several NIPSCO customers were in the dark for about 18 hours following a power outage. <\/p>\n
This comes during an ongoing lockout. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s been about two weeks since NIPSCO shut out nearly 1,600 workers<\/a> represented by the United Steelworker\u2019s Union.<\/p>\n We were at one of the NIPSCO headquarters in South Bend.<\/p>\n Some workers represented by United Steelworkers Union were picketing against NIPSCO\u2019s lock out decision.<\/p>\n Most of the employees are line workers, who often handle power outages and emergencies.<\/p>\n And some people in Warsaw say they were left without power for 18 hours.<\/p>\n It was Monday morning when people near Henderson Drive and West Baker Street heard a blaring sound like an explosion.<\/p>\n \u201cWe just heard a loud boom,\u201d said Herschel Sears a Warsaw resident. \u201cPower trucks were down the street. And the telephone pole was in two pieces.\u201d<\/p>\n Homes along West Baker Street and Southwest Point Drive lost power.<\/p>\n \u201cThey still didn\u2019t have power at like 10 p.m. at night,\u201d said Sears.<\/p>\n Neighbors say their electricity wasn\u2019t restored until around 6 a.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n All of this comes after NIPSCO locked out the workers represented by United Steelworkers Union about two weeks ago.<\/p>\n Many of the employees are line workers who typically respond to outages and emergencies like this.<\/p>\n Neighbors say NIPSCO crews didn\u2019t arrive for hours and for some residents, this outage was more than an inconvenience.<\/p>\n Patricia Hygema, says she depends on a medical device.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a CPAP machine. It helps me breathe at night, because I have asthma,\u201d said Hygema.<\/p>\n The 80-year-old says her doctor told her she\u2019s okay after the outage, but she\u2019s worried about what could happen if it lasts longer next time.<\/p>\n \u201cYeah, if I lose power for a day or two, yeah, it will eventually affect my health,\u201d said Hygema. \u201cIt is a strain when I don\u2019t have it because that does help me sleep.\u201d<\/p>\n Hygema says she wants NIPSCO and the Steelworker\u2019s Union to reach a fair agreement.<\/p>\n \u201cRight. I think they need to negotiate fairly with the people and give them fair wages. They put their lives on the line when they climb those poles,\u201d said Hygema.<\/p>\n We reached out to one of the representatives from the Steelworkers\u2019 Union, and he says there\u2019s still no set timeline for the negotiation.<\/p>\n Stay up to date on local news with WNDU<\/a> on-air and online. Be sure to download the 16 News Now App<\/a> and follow our YouTube<\/a> page as we continue to bring you the latest news coverage.<\/p>\n Copyright 2026 WNDU. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WARSAW, Ind. (WNDU) – Several NIPSCO customers were in the dark for about 18 hours following a power…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1567,1569,182,1561,1560,1564,1566,1571,1562,1565,1570,1572,1563,45,1568,1439],"class_list":{"0":"post-1758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-warsaw","8":"tag-henderson-drive","9":"tag-herschel-sears","10":"tag-indiana","11":"tag-nipsco","12":"tag-nipsco-customers","13":"tag-nipsco-headquarters","14":"tag-nipscos-lock-out-decision","15":"tag-patricia-hygema","16":"tag-power-outage","17":"tag-south-bend","18":"tag-southwest-point-drive","19":"tag-steelworkers-union","20":"tag-united-steelworkers-union","21":"tag-warsaw","22":"tag-west-baker-street","23":"tag-wndu"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}