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Electricity was chopped disconnected to astir 90,000 homes and businesses passim Montgomery County, Md., connected Sunday nighttime aft a tiny level crashed into powerfulness lines, according to authorities.
Indication were that nary 1 aboard the level was injured, but the clang seemingly progressive a transmission enactment successful the precocious portion of the county. A a website that tracks outages indicated soon aft 6 p.m. that astir one-quarter of the region was without electricity.
The clang occurred adjacent Rothbury Drive and Goshen Road, according to Pete Piringer, the spokesperson for the region occurrence and rescue service. The tract is northbound of Montgomery Village and adjacent to a commercialized area.
The origin of the clang was not instantly known. There is an airstrip for tiny craft successful precocious Montgomery, and it was unclear whether the level was connected an attack oregon takeoff. Rainy upwind whitethorn person lowered operational ceilings.
Photographs of the tract amusement the beingness of transmission lines and the fig of outages indicated that the transmission lines were involved.
On its website, Pepco listed outages, chiefly successful Montgomery, affecting astir 85,000 customers arsenic of astir 6:30 p.m. The fig of inferior customers does not bespeak the existent fig of radical served, since a ample flat location with scores of residents whitethorn beryllium listed arsenic a azygous customer.
It was not instantly known whether oregon however galore of the customers could beryllium served done different transmission lines oregon cables. Also unclear was however agelong mightiness beryllium needed for repairs.
One estimation bespeak that the level whitethorn person deed lines arsenic precocious arsenic 10 stories up. That could not beryllium instantly confirmed.
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