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MOORE COUNTY, N.C. (WTVD) -- Acts of intentional vandalism caused 10 of thousands of radical successful Moore County to slumber Saturday nighttime without power.
Moore County Sheriff's Office said the outages began conscionable aft 7 p.m. due to the fact that of damaged caused by gunfire astatine aggregate substations successful the county.
Approximately 38,000 radical mislaid powerfulness and were forced to woody with the overnight freezing temperatures.
The region has declared a authorities of exigency and opened a structure successful Carthage that tin accommodate 250 people.
Moore County Schools announced Sunday day that each schools volition beryllium closed Monday owed to wide powerfulness outages. Officials accidental an announcement volition beryllium made Monday evening to pass parents and unit of schools presumption connected Tuesday.
Sheriff Ronnie Fields said the wide outage is presently believed to person been caused by a transgression act. Anyone with accusation astir what happened is asked to interaction the Moore County Sheriff's Office astatine 910-947-2931.
During a caller league Sunday day Sheriff Fields announced, the FBI and authorities authorities person joined the probe into the Moore County powerfulness outages, and a countywide curfew has been issued from 9:00 p.m. to 5 a.m.
He said his deputies are looking into whether there's a nexus to a resistance amusement Saturday nighttime successful Moore County, but determination are nary contiguous connections to the resistance show.
Sheriff Fields went connected to accidental nary idiosyncratic oregon radical has stepped guardant to admit responsibility.
"It's a precise superior situation," Fields said. "We're surviving successful immoderate challenging times. We're dealing with things we ne'er thought we'd beryllium dealing with."
Two substations were heavy damaged during the incident. Duke Energy says they volition request to bring successful peculiar instrumentality and crews to implicit the repairs.
The Duke Energy Outage Map initially reported that powerfulness was expected to beryllium restored by 10 p.m. Sunday, but past a Duke Energy typical said Sunday day that the institution was unsure erstwhile the powerfulness would beryllium restored and it whitethorn not beryllium until Thursday owed to the antithetic quality of the outage.
Public information officials successful Moore County asked those affected successful a tweet Saturday to refrain from calling 911 to study a powerfulness outage.
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