More than 4,000 homes and businesses in Manchester are suddenly without electricity, and a smattering of Jersey Central Power and Light customers in surrounding towns are having the same problem.
Several hundred Jersey Central Power and Light customers in Neptune Township and Borough were left without electricity after a crash involving a utility pole sent power lines cascading to the street this morning.
A serious car crash that brought down electrical wires on Route 9 in Lacey Township sets up hasty detours and plunges more than 15-hundred homes and businesses into darkness.
A live power line that fell outside Brick Memorial High School forced a temporary lockdown there and triggered a small fire, bringing traffic to a crawl, according to township police.
He looked like the genuine article, but Toms River police say Kevin Wutzer just wore a clever disguise while cutting aluminum cable from a utility pole.
Hundreds upon hundreds of Jersey Central Power and Light customers in western Ocean County are waiting for the lights to flicker back on - and a busy Berkeley Township intersection is without a traffic signal - all due to a morning car crash in Manchester.
Jersey Central Power and Light is about to plunge $44,500,000 into a new 230-kilovolt transmission line through central Monmouth. Before it starts, homeowners in the five towns it touches can find out all about it at two open houses next week.