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Power returned to most in Mercer County after mass outage
Almost all power has been restored to customers in Mercer County after a transmission line issue left about 21,000 homes in the dark Saturday.
Saturday, June 23rd 2018, 11:44 AM EDT
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Almost all power has been restored to customers in Mercer County after a transmission line issue left about 21,000 homes in the dark Saturday.
First Energy's outage map showed a lot of the outages were in the Hermitage area.
21 News spoke with First Energy officials, who said the mass outage lasted about one hour and was caused by a problem in a 69,000-volt transmission line.
They said that line spreads to several substations in the area.
Officials are still investigating the exact problem involving the transmission line.