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‘Equipment Problem’ to Blame for Afternoon Outage

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Tom Sofield
A view of the security fence and a warning sign that sit at the PECO facility on Mill Creek Road in Bristol Township. File photo Credit: Tom Sofield/LevittownNow.com
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Thousands of people were in the dark for about an hour Monday afternoon in Lower Bucks County.

PECO officials reported a power outage that began around 3 p.m. and impacted 3,765 customers in Lower Makefield, 2,767 customers in Falls and 107 in Morrisville.

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Crews were dispatched and found an “equipment problem” was to blame for the outage, PECO spokesperson Debra Yemenijian told LevittownNow.com. As of 4:05 p.m., Yemenijian said customers should have had service restored.

The outage follows recent weeks when several storms left thousands of customers in the dark, some for nearly a week.

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Tom Sofield

Tom Sofield

Tom Sofield has covered news in Bucks County for 16 years for both newspaper and online publications. Tom’s reporting has appeared locally, nationally, and internationally across several mediums. He is proud to report on news in the county where he lives and to have created a reliable publication that the community deserves.