Power restored after outage in North Franklin
About 2,000 people were without power for less than an hour Thursday after an oversize truck hit phone wires on a utility pole in North Franklin Township also used by West Penn Power, triggering an outage.
Power went out at 12:14 p.m. and was restored at 12:51 p.m., West Penn spokesman Todd Meyers said.
He said the truck – described as an oil rig or derrick truck – downed phone wires lower on the pole than the electric company’s in the 200 block of Franklin Farms Road. There was no damage to electric wires, but the incident did require West Penn to reset a circuit breaker at a nearby substation to restore power along the affected line.
Meyers said the outage affected 1,928 people and a number of businesses.