Power restored in Mt. Pleasant area after outage as Super Bowl starts

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Power restored in Mt. Pleasant area after outage as Super Bowl starts

Aaron Aupperlee | Sunday, February 3, 2019 7:48 p.m.

A trio of C.W. wright workers replace switches on a utility pole at Oregon Drive in Lower Burrell on Monday, Sep. 26, 2016 for West Penn Power Company.

Hundreds of West Penn Power customers in the Mt. Pleasant area may have only caught a glimpse of the Super Bowl on Sunday.

A circuit lockout in the area cut power to 500 to 1,500 customers around 7 p.m., just after the game’s kickoff, said Eyad Gheith, a spokesman for West Penn Power.

Power was restored to those customers by Monday morning. Gheith said damage to equipment caused a circuit to go down, knocking out power to the entire line.

A spokeswoman for Excela Frick Hospital said outage did not knock out power to the hospital only lighting in the parking lots.

Aaron Aupperlee is a Tribune-Review staff writer. You can contact Aaron at 412-336-8448, aaupperlee@tribweb.com or via Twitter @tinynotebook.

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