Power restored to more than 2,800 customers in Marion, Lamar counties
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PINE BELT, Miss. (WDAM) - Pearl River Valley Electric Power Association restored electricity to more than 2,8000 customers Friday evening after an equipment failure knocked a substation off line.
The Friday afternoon power outage affected tow counties.
Power originally was lost about 2:40 p.m. Friday. PRVEPA had the system up and running in less than two hours, only to see it crash again less than 20 minutes later
A PRVEPA spokesman said power had been re-established around 5:20 p.m. Friday.
According to https://poweroutage.us/area/state/mississippi, 2,829 customers originally were without power, including 2,613 in Marion County and another 216 in Lamar County.
This report will be updated as more information becomes available.
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