Early morning outage left 350 National Grid customers without power

It was not a huge power outage when compared to the major windstorm that hit Western New York earlier this month, but it caused enough disruption in the city of Dunkirk this morning, including a number of traffic lights.  The power outage was first reported around 6 am according to National Grid spokesman Steve Brady.  He says it left about 350 customers without power and involved a spur that ran off a main line near Eagle Street...

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The outage, which lasted about three hours, at one point affected a number of traffic lights along Central Avenue.  Police Chief David Ortolano says the intersections became four-way stops...

Ortolano-Outage impacted several traffic lights

Ortolano says the Police Department was also operating on an emergency generator until power was restored around 9 am.  

Area of the outage (Map by National Grid)

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