Crime & Safety
Power Goes Out At Short Hills Mall
The mall-wide outage lasted about 30 minutes and was caused by a JCP&L substation issue, management says.
A power outage at The Mall at Short Hills left store employees and personnel without electricity for about 30 minutes on Monday.
The outage hit around 8:26 a.m. and an all-clear was issued at 8:58 a.m., general manager Michael McAvinue told Patch.
McAvinue said that nobody was injured and no complications arose from the brief power failure, which resulted from a Jersey Central Power & Light issue at one of their substations.
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McAvinue told Patch that no people were injured during the incident and that there were no further complications.
The mall opens at 10 a.m. on Mondays.
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Spokespeople for the Millburn Police Department and the Millburn-Short Hills First Aid Squad told Patch that none of their personnel responded to the mall during Monday’s outage.
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