Crime & Safety

UPDATE: Power Restored to Oak Ridge

Cozy Lake breaker cause of outage.

Power has been restored to about 5,400 residents of Oak Ridge after an outage on Saturday night that had them in the dark for just under four hours.

JCP&L determined the cause of the problem was a breaker at the Cozy Lake substation, according to a Honeywell alert from Jefferson Township's Office of Emergency Management (OEM).

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JCP&L is currently working on isolated outages in the Lake Hopatcong section of town. Residents are reminded to contact JCP&L to report an outage in their home.

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