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Thousands Lose Power In Cuyahoga County Due To 'Equipment Issue'
Thousands of homes and businesses in Cuyahoga County lost power Wednesday due to an "equipment issue," according to a report.
LAKEWOOD, OH — Thousands of homes and businesses in Cuyahoga County lost power Wednesday due to an "equipment issue," according to a report.
More than 16,000 homes and businesses were in the dark, WKYC-TV reported. Officials with FirstEnergy told the TV station the outage stemmed from “an issue with the equipment that feeds power to all of their communities."
An online outage map provided by FirstEnergy showed mass outages across the county.
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In Lakewood, thousands of homes and business were affected in the area near St. Edward High School.
Thousands more lost power in Clifton Park, near the Beck Center For the Arts, as well as near the Crown Water Treatment Plant in Westlake and Lutheran High School West in Rocky River.
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Crews estimated power would return to the areas around 2 p.m.
Elsewhere, another 500-1500 customers lost power near Walton Hills.
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