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Over 6,000 without power; MLGW hopes to reduce number soon

FOX13 Memphis · last updated

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Over 6,000 customers were without power Saturday afternoon, according to Memphis Light, Gas, and Water.

The MLGW outage map showed several areas across the county with over 1,000 customers with power outages; the heaviest hit areas were in Bartlett and Raleigh.

MLGW said they had troubleshooters investigating three circuit outages. “We should be able to do some switching to reduce the number of outages soon,” MLGW said.

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