FirstEnergy estimates power restoration by late Tuesday

FirstEnergy announced on Sunday that its crews are working around the clock to restore power to customers in Ohio and Pennsylvania, including here in the Valley.
The utility estimates that power would be restored by 11 p.m., Tuesday.
FirstEnergy subsidiary Ohio Edison experienced approximately 189,000 outages in its Ohio service area due to Saturday’s storm.
As of 4:30 a.m. Monday, 6,538 outages remained in Trumbull, Mahoning, and Columbiana Counties, about ten thousand fewer than 12 hours earlier.
- TRUMBULL (OH) 4,106
- MAHONING (OH) 1,770
- COLUMBIANA (OH) 622
Penn Power which serves an area of Western Pennsylvania including Mercer County experienced 50,500 outages on Saturday. As of 4:30 am Monday, 4,408 Mercer County customers still did not have power.
FirstEnergy said that as of Sunday afternoon, its electric companies had restored service to more than 506,000 of the approximately 637,000 customers who lost power.
Beginning overnight Friday in western Ohio and moving eastward throughout the day Saturday, winds gusting to more than 60 mph, along with thunderstorms and lightning strikes, brought down trees and limbs that caused widespread damage to FirstEnergy's utility poles and equipment.
In many areas of Ohio and Pennsylvania, FirstEnergy says the damage is even more significant than that experienced from a similar windstorm last weekend.
"Approximately 3,000 employees from our 10 electric companies and corporate offices, along with more than 1,500 contractors and support personnel from outside FirstEnergy, will continue around-the-clock work until service is restored to every customer," said Samuel L. Belcher, senior vice president of FirstEnergy Utilities. "These crews are responding to thousands of instances of downed wires, broken poles and cross-arms and damaged transformers across FirstEnergy's entire service territory."
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