The Borough and Duquesne Light Company has launched an investigation into the rash of power outages that have affected the Borough during the last two months. The investigation is expected to last two weeks in which time all outage records will be reviewed and the local infrastructure of the Village will be reviewed. We expect to have the report and meet with Duquesne Light Company Officials shortly after the report becomes available.

The information as we understand it right now:

There have been four major outages. One outage was caused by an equipment failure on a pole here within Pennsbury Village. This one required a visit by the Carnegie Fire Department as the pole caught fire. This outage affect about half the homes in Pennsbury Village.

Another outage was caused by a car accident on Baldwin Road. A car crashed into a telephone pole near Ryan Court and took out the pole causing a major outage for a large area including Pennsbury Village. Temporary repairs were made and a new pole was installed. There was a short outage the next day as the power lines were moved over to the new pole.

The other two outages were storm related with very wide area outages that affected Pennsbury Village but all the surrounding areas. The actual location of the damage that caused these two outages is not known by us but those locations are not thought to be close to Pennsbury Village.

More information will be released here when it becomes available.

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