Heat & Upgrades Cause Power Outages

More than two-thousand customers were left without power for a few hours Tuesday afternoon, for two different reasons.  West Penn Power Spokesman Todd Meyers tells WJPA News that there were two different outages that disrupted power to Washington county customers.  Meyers says one outage impacted about 1,100 customers in North Franklin Township and was caused by heat and additional loading due to running air conditioners.  Meyers say that damaged a power line and they had to shift some customers to other power lines to restore power as repairs were made.  He says the rest of the customers were impacted in downtown Washington and surrounding areas.  Meyers says a similar incident  occurred Monday morning.  He says crews are doing work to upgrade lines and that is what led to that outage. Meyers says crews were replacing cross arms on the same line when a guy wire was inadvertently broken on one of the poles, causing an outage.