Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Power Outage Overnight in Northern Schuylkill County

(05/31/17) At least 1,000 homes were without power overnight in northern Schuylkill County.


According to PPL, approximately 1,100 homes were without power in the West Mahanoy Township, Shenandoah, and Ringtown areas.

The power reportedly went out around 1:00am, Wednesday, and by 5:30am power was still out for most of the homes.

The cause of the outage was listed as a blown circuit or fused.

UPDATE:  PPL is reporting that power should be restored by 12:30pm.