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Widespread Power Outages, Downed Lines Affect 20K Customers In South Jersey
Utility crews continued to grapple with downed power lines that left nearly 20,000 homes and businesses without power in South Jersey after the storm.
Scattered power outages totaling 18,000 customers persisted throughout Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem counties, according to Atlantic City Electric on Wednesday, Jan. 10.
And nearly 1,400 homes and businesses remained without power early Wednesday in Burlington County, according to Jersey Central Power and Light.
The other largest area power outages included Camden (950 customers), Bridgeton and surrounding areas (nearly 4,900), De…
24K Wildwood Residents Without Power
A two-alarm fire at an electric plant substation in Wildwood knocked out power to 24,000 homes and businesses throughout the island on Friday, July 7, authorities said.
UPDATE: 8K Wildwood Residents Still Without Power, Here's When It's Expected To Be Restored
As of 5 p.m., power had been restored for 1,800 Atlantic City Electric customers. An additional 15,000 were expected to have power later this evening, while some will remain in the dark until Saturday, July 8, the company said.
The electrical fire at the Lake Avenue substation on West Oak Avenue.
As of 4pm, no update on time fo…
NJ County Breakdown: 5,600 Residents Without Power 6 Days After Tropical Storm Isaias
Thousands of New Jersey residents were still without power Monday, six days after Tropical Storm Isaias hit the region.
As of 10:30 a.m., there were nearly 5,600 residents in the dark, according to utility company outage maps. Sunday night, there were approximately 20,900 outages across New Jersey, according to Gov. Phil Murphy.
Many residents who had power recently restored were waiting for internet service. Restoration times for those still without power were Monday and Tuesday nights.
Here's a list of outages per county, according to outage maps from JCP&L, PSE&G, Rockland &…
More Than 300K NJ Electric Customers Still Don't Have Power
Hundreds of thousands of New Jersey residents were still without electricity Friday -- three days after Tropical Storm Isaias pummeled the region.
As of Friday morning, about 221,001 of JCP&L’s 1,131,720 customers were without power, followed by about 86,431 out of 2,326,730 PSE&G customers and 2,757 out of 545,450 Atlantic City Electric customers.
Crews were prioritizing the areas that were hit hardest by the storm, which include Morris, Monmouth and Ocean Counties, JCP&L said.
Nearly 85 percent of customers with both JCP&L and PSE&G were expected to have power restore…
