AKRON,
Ohio, Aug. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Thousands of
workers from FirstEnergy (NYSE: FE), along with outside support
from 17 states, continue working around the clock restoring power
to customers across Greater
Cleveland following historic storms on Aug. 6. Each day, service is being restored to
large numbers of customers. In addition, significant progress
removing trees and other debris is paving the way for the intricate
work required to restore service in the hardest hit areas.
More than 627,700 customers across FirstEnergy's footprint in
Ohio, Pennsylvania, West
Virginia, Maryland and
New Jersey lost power due to
storms that brought multiple tornadoes and widespread areas of
straight-line winds early in the week. Approximately 430,000 of
those were in Northeast Ohio.
All of FirstEnergy's Ohio crews
were ready to respond when the storm hit Tuesday, as none had been
sent south for response to Hurricane Debby. They now have been
joined by outside assistance from 17 states – including
Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, New
York, Kentucky,
West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, Iowa, Arkansas, Missouri, Georgia, and Kansas – forming a
contingent of approximately 7,570 total workers. Approximately
6,000 of those are working in The Illuminating Company territory,
with approximately 1550 in Ohio Edison territory. As work is
complete in one area, additional crews will move to assist The
Illuminating Company.
Updates by electric company as of 10 a.m.:
- The Illuminating Company: Power has been restored to
198,400 of the approximately 310,000 customers in Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake
and Lorain counties who lost power
due to the storms, and about 112,000 customers remain without
service.
While the global Estimated Time of Restoration
(ETR) for the vast majority of customers is Wednesday, Aug. 14 at 11:30 p.m., most of the customers who are
currently without power will have service restored prior to that
time.
As additional information about necessary
repairs is understood, more detailed ETRs are being established.
Customers can view their current individual ETR for their
particular outage by logging into their account at
firstenergycorp.com, texting STAT to 544487, or viewing the outage
map at firstenergycorp.com/outages.
- Ohio Edison: Approximately 118,100 customers in
northern and central Ohio lost
power due to the storm, and power has been restored to more than
99% of them. The approximately 600 customers who remain without
power are expected to have service restored by 11:00 p.m. tonight.
Customers who are without power can call
1-888-LIGHTSS (1-888-544-4877) or text OUT to 544487 to report
their outage or click the "Outages" link on
firstenergycorp.com.
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SOURCE FirstEnergy Corp.