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JCPL Text False About Power Outage
Did you get a text from JCPL that there would be a power outage? That alert was false and should not have been sent, the company says.
Did you get an alert from Jersey Central Power & Light that there would be a planned power outage?
That alert was false, and should not have been sent out, the company told Patch Tuesday.
The false text was sent stating that a planned power outage would occur. The text included your address, a date and time as well as a rain date. This message was sent only to those registered for JCP&L text updates and was sent throughout all of New Jersey.
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"There was a technical issue with the alert system," said JCP&L spokesman Ron Morano. "There was no planned outage. We are communicating information about it to the customers who received it."
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