Power outage reported in Greene County
West Penn Power reported an outage in Greene County Monday evening.
Company spokesman Aaron Ruegg said about 1,100 customers were without power following the failure of an insulator at a substation on Polecat Hollow Road in Whiteley Township, the same area where around 5 p.m. a Greene County 911 dispatcher said a fire had been reported.
Ruegg wasn’t able to confirm that there’d been a fire, or offer other details about what had happened.
“At this point, we don’t have details about the extent of the damage,” Ruegg said.
A crew was at the substation and others were on their way that evening to assess the damage and make repairs to restore power to customers, he said.
A Greene County 911 dispatcher identified the Mt. Morris Volunteer Fire Department as an agency that responded to the substation, but referred other questions to those at the scene. A call to the fire company wasn’t immediately returned.