Lightning strike temporarily knocks out power for more than 10,000 Leesburg Electric customers
LEESBURG — A lightning strike on a major Duke Energy power transmission line Tuesday evening knocked out power for 10,000 to 15,000 Leesburg Electric Department customers, the city manager said.
“That knocked power out to three of our five substations,” said City Manager Al Minner.
Those substations service the areas of Lake Square Mall, Center Street and the Cutrale juice plant, Minner said. The power went out about 7:15 p.m. and came back in some parts of town about 8:15 p.m.
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However, some customers still were without electricity.
"Residents should expect the outage to last an unknown amount of time," Leesburg Fire Rescue wrote on Facebook. "Leesburg Electric is on scene working on the issue and will continue to work into the night."
As of 8:40 p.m., Duke Energy wasn't reporting any service outages in Lake County and SECO was reporting 38 Lake customers affected.
Jim Ross contributed to this report
This article originally appeared on Daily Commercial: Leesburg power outage: Thousands lose power after lightning strike
