\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThousands of power outages have been reported across Western Pennsylvania as strong wind gusts continue to blow through the area on Thursday.As Duquesne Light continues to restore service, the number of customers without power was down to about 3,400 by 4:45 p.m., according to the utility’s outage map.A majority of the outages — about 2,300 — were in the city of Pittsburgh, along with Monroeville (500) and Carnegie (300).West Penn Power was reporting roughly 4,700 outages, mostly in Butler County.To stay updated on power restoration efforts, visit West Penn Power and Duquesne Light’s websites here:Duquesne Light: Outage MapWest Penn Power: FirstEnergy Storm Center PA”Call 9-1-1 for any emergency medical issues that could be impacted by an outage,” Duquesne Light said in a social media post. “Avoid any downed power lines and give ample space to lineworkers, and avoid walking under or around dead or dying trees.”You can report any outages by visiting DLC’s website or by calling 888-393-7000.”Stay safe, Pittsburgh,” DLC said.Download the WTAE app to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news in your inbox.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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Thousands of power outages have been reported across Western Pennsylvania as strong wind gusts<\/a> continue to blow through the area on Thursday.<\/p>\n As Duquesne Light continues to restore service, the number of customers without power was down to about 3,400 by 4:45 p.m., according to the utility’s outage map.<\/p>\n A majority of the outages — about 2,300 — were in the city of Pittsburgh, along with Monroeville (500) and Carnegie (300).<\/p>\n West Penn Power was reporting roughly 4,700 outages, mostly in Butler County.<\/p>\n To stay updated on power restoration efforts, visit West Penn Power and Duquesne Light’s websites here:<\/p>\n Duquesne Light: Outage Map “Call 9-1-1 for any emergency medical issues that could be impacted by an outage,” Duquesne Light said in a social media post. “Avoid any downed power lines and give ample space to lineworkers, and avoid walking under or around dead or dying trees.”<\/p>\n You can report any outages by visiting DLC’s website<\/a> or by calling 888-393-7000.<\/p>\n “Stay safe, Pittsburgh,” DLC said.<\/p>\n Download the WTAE app<\/a> to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters<\/a> to get breaking news in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of power outages have been reported across Western Pennsylvania as strong wind gusts continue to blow through…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2088,2924,16610,3985,13706,139,6439,28,30,29,73,8636,4503,96843,12883,62454,33473,96844,4328,1419],"class_list":["post-222681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-area","tag-customer","tag-dlc","tag-duquesne-light","tag-heavy-rain","tag-news","tag-official","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pittsburgh","tag-playfinder","tag-post","tag-potential-outage","tag-resident","tag-severe-storm","tag-social-medium","tag-view-previous-weather-coverage","tag-western-pa","tag-western-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222681","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=222681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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