TOWER CITY, Pa. — UPDATE: The issue was repaired by 1:20 p.m., according to an outage map hosted by PPL Electric Utilities.
Original Story:
Nearly 1,200 PPL Electric Utility customers are without power in Schuylkill County while crews work to repair some sort of issue.
An outage map hosted by the utility company shows 1,162 customers impacted by an outage covering parts of Tower City and Porter Township.
They estimated restoring power to those households by 5:30 p.m.
The outage was believed to be caused by a "tripped breaker or blow fuse," PPL said.
Further information on the outage was not immediately available.
