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UPDATE: Thousands lose power in Albany County
Comments 0 | Recommend 0UPDATE: As of 8:15 a.m. the power has been restored.
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More than 5,000 customers were without power in Albany County Wednesday morning, according to a National Grid spokesman. That number was down to more than 2,100 by 7 a.m.
The cause of the outages, in Altamont, Berne, Guilderland and Knox and Wright in Schoharie County, is still under investigation.
An Albany County dispatcher said an animal got into a power substation and interfered with equipment.
The Berne-Knox-Westerlo Central School District delayed the start of classes by two hours because of the outage.
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