{"id":185845,"date":"2026-05-07T01:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T01:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/185845\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T01:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T01:17:10","slug":"thousands-affected-by-power-outages-in-northampton-lehigh-counties-lehigh-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/185845\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands affected by power outages in Northampton, Lehigh counties | Lehigh County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Power outages continue to affect thousands in Lehigh County after a substation issue knocked out power for thousands more in Northampton County.<\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All Met-Ed customers should have their power restored as of 8:00 p.m., according to a Met-Ed spokesperson.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/omap.prod.pplweb.com\/OMAP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PPL<\/a> is reporting over 2400 power outages just south of the Queen City Airport in Lehigh County.<\/p>\n<p>PPL officials are reporting the cause of the outage as either a blown fuse or tripped breaker.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>PPL says that crews have been sent out to make repairs, and that power should be restored to the area by 4:30 a.m. on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stay with 69 News on-air and online for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Power outages continue to affect thousands in Lehigh County after a substation issue knocked out power for thousands&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,433,434],"class_list":["post-185845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-lehigh-county","tag-northampton-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}