Thousands of power outages have been reported around the Lehigh Valley on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
In Lehigh County, nearly 2,500 PPL customers in Allentown were without power as of 9 p.m., according to the utility\u2019s outage map<\/a>. The outages were centered just to the east of Alton Park, in an area south of Interstate 78 between Lehigh Street and Emmaus Avenue.<\/p>\n The cause of that outage was a tripped breaker or blown fuse, according to PPL\u2019s website.<\/p>\n In Northampton County, more than 6,500 Met-Ed customers in the Easton area had no power as of 9 p.m. The bulk of the outages, some 3,600, were in Palmer Township. Forks Township reported another 1,800 outages, and Easton reported about 900, according to Met-Ed\u2019s outage site<\/a>.<\/p>\n No cause for that outage was listed.<\/p>\n This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of power outages have been reported around the Lehigh Valley on Wednesday night. In Lehigh County, nearly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,2376,202,2181,38197,82971,433,182,139,434,2182,28,432,10552,2429],"class_list":["post-185858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-easton","tag-forks-township","tag-glendon","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-northampton-county","tag-palmer-township","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc","tag-williams-township","tag-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185858","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=185858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}