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Car Hits Pole; 3,800 Left Without Electricity

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Kosciusko REMC lost power to three of its substations Monday. At approximately 11 p.m., a car hit a NIPSCO transmission pole that served Kosicusko REMC's Claypool, Kralis and Mentone south substations. Approximately 3,800 Kosciusko REMC customers were affected by the outage.

Linemen have been working since the outage occurred, switching the load to other substations to restore power to customers. By 12:30 a.m. power was restored to 2,400 customers. As of 8:30 a.m. today, fewer than 10 customers were without power. Power was expected to be fully restored by mid-morning.

For more information, call Kosciusko REMC, 267-6331 or 800-790-7362.