Power outage reported in Chicopee

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) - Nearly 2,000 customers lost power in Chicopee Friday afternoon amidst hot and humid temperatures.

A viewer reached out to Western Mass News alerting us of the situation around 1 p.m. today.

Chicopee Electric Light initially reporting this was in the Chicopee Falls area of the city saying in part:

“We are aware of an outage in the center area of downtown. Crews are on scene and on the way to assess and get the lights back on!”

According to their Outage Map a total of 1,924 customers lost electricity and the cause was being listed ‘unknown.’

By about 1:50 p.m. we noticed power had been restored.

So, what happened?

“Looks like we had a small section of our underground fault which resulted in an outage to approximately 1,900 customers. Our crews responded immediately. They isolated the effected section and we had all customers restored within 35 minutes,” explained Dan Faille, General Manager for Chicopee Electric Light.