As central Pennsylvania gets ready for a second day of intense heat, over 9,000 people—the majority of whom reside in Adams County—remain without electricity.
Most of the Met-Ed outages are in Littlestown, where some households haven’t had power since Sunday afternoon, and upper Adams County, where a substation caught fire Monday night.
At approximately 4 p.m. on Sunday, a transformer burst at the substation, causing over 4,000 outages to be reported in southeastern Adams County. Met-Ed moved their connection onto different power lines, restoring electricity to almost half of those customers, according to spokeswoman Todd Meyers.
Since then, as temperatures in south central Pennsylvania have risen into the 90s, some customers have experienced another power outage.
A blown transformer at a substation in Germany Township that serves Germany Township, Union Township, Mount Pleasant Township, and Mount Joy Township was the cause of the outages.
After transporting two mobile transformers from Reading and western Pennsylvania to the Germany Township substation, Met-Ed anticipates having electricity back in the Littlestown area by 10 a.m. on Tuesday.
According to Meyers, Met-Ed workers had intended to work through the night in order to get the mobile transformers operational by Tuesday AM.
Until Met-Ed can identify the cause of the blown transformer and locate a permanent replacement, the mobile units will provide residents with electricity.
Following an electrical fire at a substation on the 600 block of Gardners Station Road in Tyrone Township on Monday night, residents in northern Adams County have been experiencing their own power disruptions.
By 11 p.m. on Thursday, Met-Ed predicts that power will be restored throughout upper Adams County.
In Littlestown, a cooling station has been installed at 43 S. Columbus Ave.
Additionally, two 10-pound bags of ice and two 1-gallon jugs of water are available for free to impacted Met-Ed customers at any of the following Giant supermarket stores:
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44 Natural Springs Road, Gettysburg, PA
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455 Eisenhower Drive, Hanover, PA
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801 Baltimore St., Hanover, PA
When checking out, customers should inform the Giant cashiers that they are a Met-Ed customer without electricity.
This week, the heat in central Pennsylvania is dangerous and maybe fatal. Temperatures could hit or exceed 100 degrees, according to forecasters. Temperatures are predicted to begin to gradually drop back into the 80s by Thursday.
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