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Thousands in Kalamazoo County without power due to equipment failure on Milham Ave.

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KALAMAZOO COUNTY, Mich. — Thousands of people are without power in Kalamazoo County because of an outage, according to the Consumers Energy Outage map.

As of 8:30 a.m. Saturday, more than 7,000 customers are without power in the Portage area, according to a Consumers Energy spokesperson.

Crews are expected to restore power around 1:00 p.m., Consumers said.

A spokesperson also told News Channel 3 that there was an issue with equipment on Milham Ave. that caused the outage.

This is a developing story.

Stay with News Channel 3 for the latest on air and online as we work to gather more information.

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