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Power restored to nearly 5,000 customers in Northeast Fort Wayne Thursday morning

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UPDATE: According to I&M’s online power outage map, power has been restored to nearly all customers who were affected.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA) — Nearly 5,000 customers are without power on Fort Wayne’s Northeast side after multiple power outages early Thursday, according to Indiana Michigan Power (I&M).

According to I&M’s online power outage map, five outages were reported between 12:40 a.m. and 4:12 a.m. Thursday, affecting 4,960 total customers.

I&M says power should be restored by 8:30 a.m. for the majority of customers impacted.

I&M did not list a cause of the power outages.

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