Tree falling on tree in Brocton triggers major, National Grid outage...
A tree falling on a power line in the Brocton area led to several outages that affected as many as 12-thousand National Grid electric customers during the Noon hour today. As we first reported shortly before 1 PM today... the power first went out in parts of Lakewood shortly after 11 a.m. We lost power here at our Media One Radio Group stations about 11:40 a.m. National Grid Corporate Affairs Manager Dave Bertola says most power was restored by 1:30 this afternoon. Bertola says the tree likely fell on a transmission line that delivers power to neighborhood substations. He says no power had to be re-routed... so the fixes should be permanent.
