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More Than 1,500 Without Power In Concord
Breaking: Unitil is currently assessing how long it will be before they restore power in the city; smaller outages reported in Bow, Webster.
CONCORD, NH — Unitil is assessing how long it will be before 1,531 Concord customers have power restored on Tuesday.
According to online alerts and posts on Twitter, about 7 percent of the city’s electric customers are without power. The company is still assessing how long it will take before power is restored. On Twitter, the company said it hoped to have customers restored during the next hour or so.
While the cause of the outage is not known, the bulk of the customers are in the eastern and southeastern areas of the city — including Airport Road, Regional Drive, and Manchester Street. The outage occurred sometime between 10:30 and 10:45 a.m.
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The outages are causing alarm activations all around the eastern part of the city, according to scanner chatter. Concord fire and rescue teams as well as police were sent to a crash near Sam's Club after the outage was reported.
Smaller outages are being reported in Bow, the West End, the South End, and Webster.
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