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Power Line Failure Blamed in Early-Morning Outage
More than 100 electric customers in Swampscott lost power for almost an hour on Thursday morning.
The failure of a power line connecting two Salem substations is being blamed for an early-morning power outage on Thursday that cut service to more than 100 electric customers in Swampscott, according to National Grid.
The outage occurred at about 1:25 a.m. on Thursday, according to National Grid spokesman David Graves, when a power line connecting National Grid’s Salem Harbor substation to a transmission line that feeds one of the other Salem substations failed, knocking out power.
About 11,600 customers were affected across the North Shore, including 115 homes and businesses in Swampscott.
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Customers in Beverly, Lynn, Salem and Saugus were also affected.
Graves said National Grid restored power in stages by switching the supply from the West Salem substation to the customers without power.
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The Swampscott customers that lost power had it back at 2:20 a.m.
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