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Power restored in Oak Ridge, Tennessee after widespread outage

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (WATE) – Power has been restored in the city of Oak Ridge after a widespread outage that caused traffic lights to go dark.

Police issued an alert at 2:21 p.m. on Wednesday reporting a citywide power outage. Drivers were told to treat all intersections as four-way stops.

Oak Ridge Electric crews were able to restore power across the city just before 4 p.m.

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No information was immediately available on a possible cause of the outage.

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