Power Outages Hit West Orange And Essex County On Tuesday

While thunderstorms and heavy rain fell across Essex County on Tuesday morning, PSE&G reported power blackouts across the region via its online outage map.

As of 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday:

• In Glen Ridge, an outage affecting 648 customers in the area of Belleville Avenue and Ridgewood Avenue is expected to clear at 10:30 a.m.
• In Montclair, an outage affecting 47 customers on Heller Way is expected to clear at 10 a.m.
• In West Caldwell, an outage affecting fewer than five customers in the area of Fairfield and Woodside avenues is expected to clear at 1 p.m.
• In Caldwell, an outage affecting fewer than five customers in the area of Cleveland and Whitfield streets is expected to clear at 1:15 p.m.
• In West Orange, an outage affecting nine customers on O’Connor Circle is expected to clear at 12:30 p.m., an outage in the area of White Street and North Jefferson Street affecting fewer than five customers is expected to clear at 12:15 p.m., and an outage affecting fewer than five customers on Eagle Ridge Way is expected to clear at 1 p.m.
• In South Orange, multiple outages hit the area east of South Mountain Reservation, affecting about 75 customers from Mountain Drive to Brentwood Drive.
• Multiple outages hit Newark, including an outage affecting about 63 customers on Dillard Court (expected to clear at 11:45 a.m.), an outage affecting about 41 customers on Brill Street (expected to clear at 3 a.m. on Wednesday)

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