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NJ power outage leaves thousands of JCPL customers in dark

Power restored after outages through northwest New Jersey leave thousands in the dark
Joshua Jongsma

NorthJersey.com

Power outages have left thousands of JCP&L customers in the dark Tuesday morning before being restored.

Through the state nearly 11,000 customers were without power from Jersey Central Power & Light as of 8:30 a.m. By 9:30 a.m., though, power was back for just about all of them.

Here are the outage counts by county and customers without service earlier Tuesday before being restored:

- Morris County: 1,058
- Sussex County: 1,331
- Warren County: 8,116

Hackettstown alone had over 3,500 people without power. No word on specific cause of the outage as of Tuesday morning.

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