Thousands in Long Beach briefly lose power
More than 8,500 Long Beach residents were without power briefly Tuesday night, officials said.
The power went out about 7:48 p.m. due to a "voltage problem" at the Park Place substation near Long Beach City Hall, said Jeffrey Weir, a spokesman for PSEG Long Island.
Of the 8,518 customers impacted -- 3,937 lost power for 34 minutes; 1,162 lost power for 10 minutes and 3,419 lost power for eight minutes. Everyone had their power restored by 8:22 p.m.
The cause of the outage was under investigation, Weir said.
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the day of the outage.
Nicole Fuller is Newsday's senior criminal justice reporter. She began working at Newsday in 2012 and previously covered local government.
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