Atlantic City Electric officials say faulty cable caused massive outage impacting 24K customers in Wildwood, New Jersey - WPVI-TV
Atlantic City Electric officials say faulty cable caused massive outage impacting 24K customers in Wildwood, New Jersey - 6abc Philadelphia
WILDWOOD, New Jersey (WPVI) -- Officials revealed new information about what caused the massive power outage that impacted 24,000 customers in Wildwood, New Jersey earlier this month.
On Friday, July 7, a massive blaze broke out at the Lake Avenue substation in Wildwood, which had to be de-energized as a result.
This left thousands in the Wildwood area without power for over 24 hours.
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Power was fully restored by the end of the weekend.
Atlantic City Electric said Wednesday the preliminary cause of the outage was a faulty cable.
The electric company is also in the process of making repairs to the local energy grid and removing temporary generators that had been set up.
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