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Tree crew causes power outage affecting southeast Genesee County

WJRT ABC12 · last updated

GENESEE COUNTY, Mich. (WJRT) — A tree cutting crew is blamed for a power outage that left much of southeast Genesee County in the dark Thursday.

Consumers Energy says a third-party contractor accidentally dropped a tree limb on a set of power lines around 11:15 a.m.

The initial outage affected more than 8,100 customers covered by three electric substations in Grand Blanc, Atlas and Davison townships. The outage also affected part of the city of Grand Blanc.

Consumers Energy crews restored power to more than 2,800 customers in part of the Grand Blanc area within an hour of the outage being reported.

About 5,300 customers remained without power in Atlas, Davison and Grand Blanc townships as of 2:30 p.m. The utility expects to fully restore power by 8 p.m. Thursday.

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