Power outages reported throughout Mahoning Valley

Power was knocked out to thousands of Mahoning Valley customers Monday evening as winds picked up, taking with them power lines and trees.

The most concentrated power outage may have been in the Cortland City-Bazetta Township area, where enough customers went without power to cancel school in the Lakeview School District for the day.

As of 10 a.m., today, power had been restored to most Trumbull residents, but as many as 2,000 customers lost power at some point during the evening, especially around 1 a.m., said David Turner, area manager for FirstEnergy.

As many as 2,500 customers lost power in Mahoning County, most of them from 8 p.m. to midnight. A large number of those were on Youngstown’s East Side, Turner said.

At 10 a.m. today, about 200 customers were still without power in Mahoning County, most of those in Austintown.

In Columbiana County, around 1,000 customers lost power, most of those in Hanover Township and Salem. As of 10 a.m. today, around 900 customers were still without power, Turner said.

The Trumbull County 911 dispatching center in Howland reported there were tree limbs down in various areas, but the biggest tree problem occurred near the Bell-Wick bowling alley just west of the city of Hubbard.