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Power Outages Hit Cape Cod Eversource Customers

Eversource is working to identify the cause of the problem, which is mostly impacting Sandwich, Bourne and Falmouth.

FALMOUTH, MA — As of 4 p.m. on Thursday, a couple thousand Eversource customers are without power.

Over 1,000 customers in Bourne and Sandwich were without power while roughly 750 customers in Falmouth faced the same issue.

In a statement, the company said they are working to address the outage"in the Sandwich and Bourne areas following an equipment issue along Quaker Meetinghouse Road."

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They continued:

"While crews work to make physical repairs to damaged equipment, our system operators are using remote switching capabilities to restore power to as many customers as quickly as safely possible, and have been able to restore power to the majority of customer initially affected by the outage."

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Eversource officials told Patch that the initial outages were reported at 2:15 p.m.

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