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Power Outages Darken Parts of Northeast Ohio

No outages reported in Stow.

Icy conditions have contributed to a series of power outages in several areas on Monday, but Summit County areas were mostly unaffected — including Stow.

FirstEnergy spokesperson Mark Durbin said, “We’re hopeful” to get power restored soon, but some areas may not be restored until Tuesday.  

Particularly hard hit are .

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As of about 9 a.m. Monday, 4,800 Lakewood customers were without power, Durbin said, and 1,200 Shaker Heights customers were without power.

Other areas affected include Beachwood, with about 150 customers without electricity, and Solon with about 120 customers offline. Fairlawn had two customers reporting outages. Twinsburg, Stow and Cuyahoga Falls reported no outages Monday morning.

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A utility pole fire caused outages in the Cleveland area Sunday night. 

FirstEnergy updates its estimates of area outages on its website regularly. 

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