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Power restored in Kentwood after car takes down utility pole

Thousands had lost power while crews remained on the scene to clean it up and try to fix the outage.
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KENTWOOD, Mich. — Power has been restored after thousands of residents suffered an outage for hours.

The outage took place following an incident where a car took down a utility pole in a crash Saturday morning, police confirm.

The crash involved just one vehicle and it happened along Breton between 32nd and 44th, in front of the Excel Academy. Police say no one was injured.

According to the Consumers Energy outage map, there were 2,076 affected by the outage exactly. The areas that went without power were 32nd to Shaffer, Shaffer to 44th and 44th over to Kalamazoo.

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The area affected by the power outage.

 

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