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Power outages resurge in Northampton County

WFMZ.com · last updated

In Northampton County, over 5,000 customers were without power at one point during the overnight hours.

FirstEnergy says responders requested the power to be cut off overnight because of a structure fire.

The outages mostly affected the Nazareth and Forks Township area.

By 3 a.m., the energy provider’s website reported no outages. As of 6 a.m., power outages began spiking again.

At around 6:20 over 2,000 customers in the Nazareth area without power. The number decreased to 250 shortly before 7 a.m.

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