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Pole fire in Potsdam cuts power to 500 over weekend

Posted 11/2/16

By CRAIG FREILICH POTSDAM -- About 500 National Grid customers in Potsdam lost power Saturday night due to a pole fire on Pierrepont Avenue. The outage, which extended toward Parishville, began at …

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Pole fire in Potsdam cuts power to 500 over weekend

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By CRAIG FREILICH

POTSDAM -- About 500 National Grid customers in Potsdam lost power Saturday night due to a pole fire on Pierrepont Avenue.

The outage, which extended toward Parishville, began at about 6:15 p.m., according to Virginia Limmiatis, a spokeswoman for the power company.

She said an equipment failure started the fire to a pole that caused the interruption.

Crews replaced the pole and service was restored at about 10:30 p.m., Limmiatis said.