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Officials with Public Service Company of Oklahoma said some Lawton customers should be prepared to be without power through today and potentially into Thursday.

PSO officials said a fire at the east side substation is responsible for the outages. Crews are working to restore service, but the exact cause of the fire is unknown and teams will have more information once they have been able to safely access the area and assess the damage. Once the extent of damage is known, officials can provide an estimate of restoration of service.

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