Power restored after nearly 2,000 without electricity in Montgomery County

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Credit: Rich Pedroncelli

Credit: Rich Pedroncelli

Nearly 2,000 customers lost power Thursday night in Montgomery County along with hundreds of customers in Hamilton.

Montgomery County had 1,226 customers without electricity as of midnight., down from 1,980 at its height around 6:30 p.m. Thursday, according to the AES Ohio online outage map. By 5:30 a.m. Friday, there was only one outage reported in the county.

The city of Hamilton experienced two power issues Thursday night, but power has since been restored.

The first involved a large number of outages on the city’s South 11th Street circuit due to a damaged transformer bank. All but a few had their power restored as of a 6:20 p.m. update from the Hamilton Electric Department.

The second was a brief outage on the Gunn-Eden circuit to repair a loose wire connection, according to an alert sent just after 10:15 p.m. Power was restored by 10:45 p.m.

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