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Power Restored After Morning Outage Leaves Thousands in Flatbush Without Electricity

Con Ed encouraged customers to report outages.

A power outage in Brooklyn left thousands of customers in the dark Thursday morning. Con Edison said a truck carrying dumpsters took down overhead wires around 7:45 a.m. Thursday in East Flatbush. The outage impacted 9,735 customers in the Flatbush and East Flatbush neighborhoods. Service was restored around 11 a.m., the utility said. "A loud explosion, and nobody had power in the neighborhood," one business owner said. "Trying to make it work the best we could." Click here to read more on CBS News.com. 




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