Power mostly restored after thousands affected by outages in Northampton, Lehigh counties | Lehigh County

Power has been mostly restored after outages affected thousands of people in Lehigh and Northampton counties.

A substation issue had knocked out power for thousands in Northampton County.

At 7:40 p.m., 18,000 people lost power in Northampton County due to an issue with an Easton substation, according to Met-Ed officials. 

All Met-Ed customers had been estimated to have their power restored as of 8 p.m., according to a Met-Ed spokesperson. 

At approximately 8:02 p.m., around 800 PPL customers near Queen City Airport in Salisbury Township, Lehigh County, experienced an outage due to equipment failure, according to PPL officials. 

They say that approximately 600 customers were restored within minutes. 

PPL says that crews were sent out to make repairs, and that power was estimated to be restored to the area by 4:30 a.m. on Thursday.