Tripped breakers cause widespread power outages in Harrisburg area

Update: As of 9 p.m., less than 100 PPL customers throughout Dauphin County are without power.

Over 2,000 residences in uptown Harrisburg and surrounding areas are without power Thursday evening, according to PPL’s outage map.

A power outage in Uptown Harrisburg was caused by a tripped breaker or blown fuse, knocking out power for 1,713 customers.

According to the outage map, a separate outage affecting 414 people in the area of Arsenal Boulevard and Herr Street was also caused by a tripped breaker or blown fuse…

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