{"id":688935,"date":"2026-06-07T01:13:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T01:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/688935\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T01:13:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T01:13:22","slug":"thousands-in-pittsburgh-region-without-power-as-severe-storms-roll-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/688935\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands in Pittsburgh region without power as severe storms roll through"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Thousands of customers are without power as severe storms roll through the Pittsburgh region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">West Penn Power reported more than 53,000 power outages in the Western Pennsylvania area as of 6:15 p.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Of those outages, more than 23,000 are in Fayette County, and another 16,000 are in Washington County <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/outages-pa.firstenergycorp.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/outages-pa.firstenergycorp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to view FirstEnergy\u2019s outage map.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of customers are without power as severe storms roll through the Pittsburgh region. West Penn Power reported&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[37741,43547,26819,9070,46623,1980,68986,202381,4,450,29362,3721,58161,7522,74739,34542,54904,296,229,78057,106314,16358,3235,1872,3303,67134,299198,36632,41979,451,30911,23664,14863,18591,27528,282179,52519,3,299199,3233,5568,4631,10822,7241,236180,84240,62036,25293,452,453,7524,34321,299200,4398,7249],"class_list":["post-688935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-abstract","tag-alert","tag-attention","tag-background","tag-banner","tag-black","tag-blackout","tag-bolt","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-caution","tag-communication","tag-concept","tag-crisis","tag-critical","tag-current","tag-danger","tag-dark","tag-design","tag-disruption","tag-electric","tag-electricity","tag-emergency","tag-energy","tag-failure","tag-graphic","tag-grey","tag-grid","tag-hazard","tag-headlines","tag-icon","tag-illustration","tag-information","tag-issue","tag-lightning","tag-minimal","tag-modern","tag-news","tag-notification","tag-outage","tag-power","tag-problem","tag-service","tag-sign","tag-simple","tag-stripe","tag-symbol","tag-template","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-urgent","tag-utility","tag-voltage","tag-warning","tag-yellow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}