Montgomery Community Media

UPDATED Pepco officials say a power outage on Friday afternoon near the National Mall was caused by underground equipment failure and heat is believed to be the cause for the disruption of service. According to a news release from the utility company, power should be restored to 200 customers, including to federal buildings, by noon […]

UPDATED 4:27 p.m. There are now just over 300 Pepco customers without power in Montgomery County. UPDATED 1:27 p.m. The power is coming back on for some without power this Saturday. Totals now down to just over 800 customers in Montgomery County. UPDATED 12:18 p.m. There are over now over 1,500 Pepco customers in Montgomery […]

UPDATED About 100 Pepco customers were without power in the Rockville area on Friday morning. Pepco Spokesperson Marcus Beal said the outage –which impacted both residential and commercial customers – was a result of an underground cable failure. He said it took some time for crews to find the exact location of the damage. According […]

UPDATED Over 500 Pepco customers are without power in the Chevy Chase area of Montgomery County. Pepco Spokesperson Bob Hainey says the call came in at 3:24 p.m. today from Colston Drive. He said he does not know the cause of the outage at this hour. According to Hainey, crews are on location looking for […]

Residents on Chesterfield Road in Manor Park were living without power for seven days. MCM’s Sonya Burke was in the community when crews arrived to restore the area’s electricity and she talked to one family that has a lot of questions about why the neighborhood off Norbeck Road is always last when it comes to […]