Substation malfunction causes Niles power outage
Posted: Apr 30, 2017 5:33 PM EDT
More than 2,000 Niles City and Niles Township residents are without power after a substation malfunction.
According to Niles City Police, the outage was caused by a problem at the Third Street substation.
Crews are working to switch to the city's backup substation, and AEP estimates that power will be restored to all of those affected by 4:30 p.m.