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