UPDATE: Power Restored to Thousands in Mauldin and Five Forks Area

UPDATE: 9:38 a.m.

According to Laurens Electric Cooperative spokesperson Jim Donahoo, power has been fully restored to customers in the Mauldin and Five Forks area.

According to Donahoo, the problem occurred when a Duke Energy substation had a transmission-side outage near the Golden Strip Career Center due to an equipment failure.

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Thousands of Laurens Electric Cooperative customers are without power this morning after an outage of undetermined cause.

Information is still being gathered, but as of 8:15 this morning 2,452 residences were still without power.

One customer reported an outage at 6:40 this morning which was quickly restored, but thousands of others haven't been so lucky.

To view the outage map click HERE.

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