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Power Restored in Lakewood Following Thousands of Outages
Two power outages in Lakewood took out power to most of the city on Tuesday.
Power has been restored in Lakewood, in the city that knocked out electricity to more than 15,000 FirstEnergy customers on Tuesday.
Heavy rains on Monday night and early Tuesday morning flooded the FirstEnergy substation in Brooklyn, taking out service to more than 10,000 in Lakewood.
Mark Durbin, spokesman for FirstEnergy, said that as power from that substation was being transferred, another substation went down — taking out power to another 6,000 Lakewood customers.
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By midnight Wednesday, most of the power had been restored, he said.
“We’re monitoring the situation and we’re ready to deal with situations as they come up,” Durbin said, adding that power is slowly being transferred back to the Brooklyn substation.
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On Monday, more than lost power because of the extreme heat, and strain on the power grid.
The heat streak is likely to continue this week, with highs reaching the low 90s.
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