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1,600 Temporarily Without Power Monday Afternoon

Some Havre de Grace residents were without power Monday afternoon, BGE said.

About 1,600 residents were without power Monday afternoon after the cross-arm on a pole broke.

BGE spokeswoman Rachael Lighty said all 1,600 customers were restored by 3:30 p.m. The issue arose around noon, she said.

"We had restored the majority of them by 12:50," she said. "They were able to isolate the issue."

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Lighty didn't have an exact location of the pole.

Patch readers from Bayview Estates, Grace Harbor and in outlying neighborhoods beyond Interstate 95 reported outages via email and social media.

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Anyone with an outage may report it to BGE at 877-778-2222.

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