BUFFALO, N.Y. — Thousands of National Grid customers in Erie County lost power on Thursday evening.
According to the company's website, over 6,200 customers in Western New York are impacted by outages, as of 9:30 p.m. Thursday. The outages started as far north as Derby and Eden and ran south — along the Thruway , Route 5, and U.S. 62 — down to North Collins, Brant, Farnham, and Irving.
At one point, more than 9,000 customers lacked power Thursday night.
The estimated restoration time for those still without power is 2 a.m. Friday, according to National Grid's outage map.
"There was an equipment failure at a substation that resulted in the loss of electricity service to around 9,000 customers," a spokesperson for National Grid confirmed to 2 On Your Side.
National Grid said crews are on the scene making repairs, and added that service should be restored later tonight.
