Only a handful of customers, in Longmeadow and Colrain, were still without power, according to Western Massachusetts Electric Co.'s online outage map.
SPRINGFIELD – Electricity has been restored to the more than 1,500 Western Massachusetts Electric Co. customers in Springfield who lost power Tuesday night after a transformer blew.
Customers elsewhere throughout the region also lost power — sections of Agawam, Easthampton, Southampton, West Springfield, Colrain and Longmeadow were temporarily in the dark — though it was unclear what caused those outages. As of Wednesday morning, however, power had been restored to all but 9 customers in Longmeadow and four in the Franklin County town of Colrain, according to WMECO's online outage map.
The outages kept utility workers busy through the night, with Springfield suffering the biggest blow. More than 1,500 customers in the city's Forest Park neighborhood lost power shortly before 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. Power had been restored to all but 568 Springfield customers less than an hour after the lights went out, according to WMECO spokesman Jeff Tilghman.
"Workers are trying to restore power as quickly and as a safely as they can," he said shortly after Tuesday's outage, which was caused by a blown transformer on Dickinson Street.
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