Thousands still without power Saturday in Portage County, but numbers dropping. - Record-Courier

Thousands still without power Saturday in Portage County

Thousands still without power Saturday in Portage County, but numbers dropping.

FirstEnergy Corp. reports that nearly 9,300 of its Portage County customers were still without power as of 2:17 p.m. Saturday following a storm with high winds late Thursday / early Friday.

This includes more than 1,700 in Kent, more than 1,000 in Ravenna Township, nearly 1,000 in Shalersville, more than 800 in Aurora, about 700 in Rootstown, nearly 600 in Mantua Township and more than 500 in Franklin Township. Other communities each had fewer than 500 customers without power.

This is a marked improvement over Friday when more than 25,000 were without power at one point during the day or even late Saturday morning, when nearly 11,000 were without power.

Estimated restoration time is currently by 11 p.m. Monday for most communities, but is Wednesday at 4 p.m. for Aurora fewer than 50 customers without power in Hiram Village. Estimated restoration times are always subject to possible change, however, with power possibly restored sooner or later than the estimated time.

Go to https://outages.firstenergycorp.com/oh.html for updated information about power outages.

Ohio Advises the public to treat downed electric lines as live, stay at least 30 feet away from them, use caution when wires are hanging from trees and debris and not to remove debris from equipment.

More: Road closed around Portage County Friday morning following storm

Ohio Edison said crews, including contractors are working "around the clock" to restore power. Order of priority when restoring power is critical public service facilities, outages that restore the largest number of customers, and then localized issues and individual customers.