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UPDATED: Morning Power Outage Zaps Electricty For 1,600 Homes
A Pepco spokesman said power was out for about 90 minutes, due to a faulty breaker.
Updated (2:47 p.m.) ---- Power has been restored to nearly 1,675 Pepco customers in Germantown, after an outage zapped electricity for 90 minutes Wednesday morning.
The outage began at around 9 a.m., when a circuit feeder serving customers in Gunners Lake area was locked by a faulty breaker in Quince Orchard, said Pepco spokesman Clay Anderson.
The power was restored at 10:37 a.m., Anderson said.
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Original --- A faulty circuit breaker has left 1,672 Germantown homes without electricity Wednesday morning.
The power has been out since 9 a.m. and is expected to be restored by noon, said Pepco spokesman Clay Anderson.
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"That's our preliminary assesment," Anderson told Patch.
Anderson said that work crews were on the way and that more information would become available later.
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