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12,000 Homes & Businesses Without Power
A transmission problem left more than 12,000 homes and businesses in the Toms River area without power Wednesday morning, according to Jersey Central Power & Light.
According to the JCP&L outage map, the outage was affecting houses in the eastern part of Toms River, as well as Seaside Heights and Seaside Park. A malfunction in one of the high-voltage sub-transmission lines triggered the outage, according to Chris Hoenig, a JCP&L spokesman. Crews were attempting to reroute energy transmission around the defective region in order to re-connect customers as soon as feasible. According to Hoenig, they are still attempting to figure out what caused the incident.
"Because it's a transmission issue," Hoenig explained, "when power is restored, everyone will come back at the same moment," as opposed to when they're restoring damaged lines after a storm.
While the computer predicted that power would be restored by noon, Hoenig said he couldn't give a specific time estimate because the employees were still trying to figure out what was causing the outage.
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