Around 3,000 United Illuminating customers lost power Tuesday after downed wires impacted a circuit in
East Haven
.
According to UI spokesperson Sarah Wall Fliotsos, UI received a call at 6:45 p.m. about “wires burning and coming down” onto North High Street in East Haven.
The wires then impacted a high-load circuit, leading to the outages.
Fliotsos said the estimated restoration time was 10 p.m. The UI outage map showed power was restored to most of the affected customers.
To view UI outages, click
here.
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