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Substation Fire Causes Knocks Power Around Allentown, City Says Substation Fire Causes Knocks Power Around Allentown, City Says
Substation Fire Causes Knocks Power Around Allentown, City Says A fire at an electrical substation left parts of Allentown without power early on Monday, Nov. 7, city officials said.  City Hall announced that large swaths of Center City, and First Ward, and "other areas" were le without electricity in a Tweet just before 9 a.m. Fire officials identified a substation blaze as the cause of the blackout at around the same time. Residents who come to an intersection with a disabled traffic light should treat it as a four-way stop sign, the fire department added.  Utility company PPL's online power outage map showed as many as 21,000 Allentown res…

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