MONTICELLO – Over 5,000 customers of New York State Electric and Gas lost power late Monday morning in unrelated outages.
In Sullivan County, 4,087 customers in Fallsburg, Neversink, and Thompson lost power at 10:42 a.m. when a land clearing contractor dropped a tree on a major transmission power line, a utility spokeswoman said. Power was restored to all customers by 11:53 a.m.
In an unrelated incident, 80 customers in Walden lost power at noon with service expected to be restored later in the day. The cause of that outage was not immediately known.
