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Power outages resolved in Jackson County | News | wsiltv.com
JACKSON COUNTY, Ill. -- Power is back on for Egyptian Electric customers in Elkville, Vergennes and DeSoto.
Egyptian crews were able to troubleshoot the substations to diagnose the issue Sunday afternoon. A piece of protection equipment was discovered dislodged, causing the outage.
Egyptian thanks its customers for their patience during the outage.
ORIGINAL STORY -- More power outages are hitting the Southern Illinois region.
Members of Egyptian Electric in Elkville, Vergennes and DeSoto could be without power, the company said in a Facebook post Sunday morning. The company stated over 470 of its customers are without power.
Egyptian Electric credited an outage of its south feeder near Finney for the power disruption.
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Crews are out working now to fix the issue.
This outage comes one day after Ameren's outage affecting over 2,000 members in Carbondale.
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