BEDFORD COUNTY, Tenn. (WZTV) — More than 7,200 Duck River Electric Management Corporation customers were without electricity Friday afternoon as dangerous heat blanketed Middle Tennessee.
As of 3:32 p.m., the outage map showed 82 active outages, affecting 7,287 customers.
The outages came as temperatures at that time climbed to 98 degrees, with a heat index of 110 degrees under sunny skies…