Power restored after equipment fault leaves over 2K in dark

More than 1,200 households are without power in the area, with the vast majority of the outages in Montgomery County, according to the AES outage map.

As of 8:50 p.m., 1,171 power customers were without power in Montgomery County, but by 9:35 p.m. that number rose to 2,210.

AES Director of Corporate Communications Mary Ann Kabel said that the outage was due to a fault in a piece of equipment and crews were able to isolate the outage.

Power was restored soon afterward.

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