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Downtown Youngstown to experience planned power outage Wednesday evening

According to Lauren Siburkis of FirstEnergy, the outage is necessary to fix an issue in the underground system causing "tripping" at certain businesses along Commerce Street.

Wednesday, January 12th 2022, 2:46 PM EST

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Wednesday, January 12th 2022, 3:13 PM EST

By Zach Mosca

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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - Downtown Youngstown is set to experience a planned power outage on Wendesday evening at 5:00 p.m.

According to Lauren Siburkis of FirstEnergy, the outage is necessary to fix an issue in the underground system causing "tripping" at certain businesses along Commerce Street causing all of their computers to reset.

The outage is scheduled from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. but it is expected to be a quick fix and may not take up the entire time slot. The outage is expected to impact about 80 customers.

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