More than 25,000 ComEd customers lost electricity Friday after a communication tower collapsed onto a high-voltage transmission line in Carol Stream, Illinois, knocking out power across several DuPage County communities.
The outage began in the afternoon and affected a wide swath of customers in Carol Stream, with ripple effects in Glen Ellyn, Winfield, and Wheaton. Power was restored to nearly all customers by 10:10 p.m., according to ComEd.
News reports incorrectly described the fallen structure as a cell tower, and one network news report said that phone service in the area was down, hitting residents and businesses with a “double whammy.”…