Downed transmission line causes thousands to be without power in the Miami Valley

MIAMI VALLEY — Thousands of people were without power in the Miami Valley Tuesday afternoon.

Outages begin being reported at 9:00 p.m.., at its peak, over 3,700 AES Ohio customers reported not having power, according to the AES Outage Map.

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The majority of outages were reported in Montgomery County.

Mary Ann Kabel, director of corporate communications at AES Ohio said the outage was due to a transmission line issue at their Northridge substation.

As of 2:00 a.m., Wednesday, power has been restored to AES customers.

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