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UPDATE: Power mostly restored after outage in Clark County

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CLARK COUNTY — UPDATE @5:45 P.M.

Power has been mainly restored in Clark County.

This comes after 1,629 First Energy customers were without power late Saturday afternoon.

As of 5:32 p.m., there are almost 200 outages reported in Clark County, according to the First Energy outage map.

Most of the outages were in Springfield.

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Several people are without power across parts of Clark County late Saturday afternoon.

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First Energy reports that 1,629 customers are without power in Clark County, according to its outage map.

These outages are active as of 5:17 p.m. on Saturday.

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The bulk of the outages are reported in Springfield.

The outage map shows that most of the outages are on Bechtle Avenue near W North and Columbia Streets.

First Energy’s outage map also indicates that it is affecting W Pleasant and S Yellow Springs Streets.

We will continue to update this story.

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