First Energy Storm Update 2024-8-7

PER FIRST ENERGY:

The damage across Northeast Ohio after last night's storm is significant and widespread, consisting of hundreds of broken poles and crossarms, downed power lines and fallen trees and debris blocking road access. Approximately 459,000 customers in northeast Ohio lost power due to the storm, and 337,500 customers remain without service, primarily in the hardest-hit areas of Cuyahoga, Lake and Ashtabula counties.

Our crews will continue to work around the clock and we are shifting crews from our FirstEnergy sister companies that were less impacted by Tuesday's storm. Our primary focus at this stage is to remove any hazards and assess the damage so that our crews can access the site of an outage and begin to safely make the repairs.

While we are still developing estimated restoration times, we expect this will be a multi-day restoration effort for many. We will provide restoration updates for specific locations as they become available on our outage map: http://spr.ly/OHOutageMap.

We appreciate your patience and understanding while our crews work as quickly and safely as possible to get all customers back up and running. Stay safe!