Power restored for Somerville residents

Posted: 08/24/12 at 10:00 am EDT

SOMERVILLE, Mass. -- N-star customers in Somerville have their power back after an underground circuit failure left more than 800 people powerless, earlier this morning.

 Somerville firefighters responded to smoke from two manholes on Somerville Avenue where the outage originated, around 4:15 this morning.

N-star said customers were without power for about an hour.

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