All power is restored from Friday storms

YOUNGSTOWN — All FirstEnergy customers who lost power during Friday's storm are no longer in the dark.

The final 12 customers without power, primarily in Youngstown, had it restored at 11 p.m. Sunday, said Paul Harkey, Mahoning County area manager for Ohio Edison, a FirstEnergy subsidiary.

In all, about 50,000 FirstEnergy customers in Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties in Ohio and Mercer and Lawrence counties in Pennsylvania lost power during the storm, that was at its peak Friday afternoon, Harkey said. Of that number, 40,000 were in Mahoning County.

The storm caused numerous trees and powerlines to fall causing the outages.

About 150 crews from Cleveland, Toledo, Elyria, Springfield, Kent and Akron as well as those from the Erie, Pa., area were called to the Mahoning and Shenango valleys to assist with the effort to restore power.