UPDATE: Thousands in Chesterfield Left Powerless

Updated Friday morning: Power has been restored to all but a few DTE customers. For a majority of the residents who lost power Thursday night, the lights went back in the early Friday morning hours.

Thousands of residents in Chesterfield Township are without power Thursday night.

The outage, which has left 11,000 customers without power, occurred when a transformer failed at around 9 p.m. Thursday, according to DTE.

Power is expected to be restored to most areas between 2-3 a.m. Friday, DTE spokesman Alejandro Bodipo-Memba said.

Heat was a factor in the outages, Bodipo-Memba said, and DTE will continue to investigate the issue.

DTE received calls from residents about wires down in the area about 30 minutes after the transformer failed.

According to , who share dispatch services with , people heard a loud boom before the power went out.

Residents reported that the business corridor at 23 Mile Road and Gratiot was dark, and others on the Chesterfield-New Baltimore Facebook page reported outages at 22 Mile and Gratiot, 23 Mile and Donner, and 24 Mile and Foster.

There are also approximately 3,000 people without power in Macomb Township.