2,000 without power in county’s west end

PPL Outage Map as of 1:30pm

TOWER CITY – Over 2,000 PPL customers are without power at this hour on Schuylkill County’s West End.

PPL’s Outage Map is reporting a major outage in the Tower City-Porter Township area impacting 2,130 customers in a large area straddling the Schuylkill/Dauphin line.

The impact is listed as a tripped breaker or blown fuse, and the power company expects service to be restored by 7:00pm tonight.

About 60 are without power in various spots around the Pine Grove area and 23 are out in the Fountain area of the Hegins Valley.

View PPL’s outage map here: https://omap.prod.pplweb.com/omap

Information on northern Schuylkill’s outages: https://shensentinel.com/news/ppl-500-without-power-in-girardville-william-penn-area-70-in-ringtown-valley/

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