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City-wide Power Outage Has Lawrenceburg In Dark

Thursday, May 23, 2019 at 9:58 PM

By Mike Perleberg @mikedup84

Much of the City of Lawrence is without electricity Thursday night.

Update published May 24 at 6:06 a.m.:

Electric service was restored in Lawrenceburg at around 10:30 p.m. Thursday night.

Original story published May 23 at 9:58 p.m.

(Lawrenceburg, Ind.) - Most of the City of Lawrenceburg is experiencing an electricity blackout which began around 9:00 p.m. Thursday.

Lawrenceburg Municipal Utilities says the outage is due to a semi truck hitting a utility pole and crews are en route to get power restored.

No estimation on when service will be restored was given.

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