UPDATE @ 7:41 p.m.:
The number of Dayton Power & Light customers without power is down to 737 after nearly 3,000 were affected Sunday afternoon.
According to Tom Tatham, director of operations at DP&L, an animal came into contact with one of their air brakes in Miamisburg which caused the outages.
DP&L is currently working to get the remaining customers their power.
INITIAL REPORT: Thousands of Dayton Power & Light customers are without power this evening.
As of 6:11 p.m., 2,964 customers are without power in Montgomery County.
The estimated restoration time is 8:00 p.m., according to the DP&L Outage Map.
We are working to learn why.
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