UPDATE: ‘Large bird’ causes thousands to be without power in Montgomery County

CENTERVILLE — Nearly 7,000 AES Ohio customers were temporarily without power in Montgomery County Wednesday morning.

At 9:24 a.m., 6,723 customers were without power, according to the AES Ohio outages map.

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The outages were reported in the Centerville, Washington Township and Springboro area.

A spokesperson for AES Ohio said the cause of the outages was due to a “large bird” in the Yankee Street substation.

Power has since been restored.