Montgomery Community Media

UPDATED Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) officials have announced that Maryvale Elementary School in Rockville was closed today because of a power outage. The school is located at 1000 First Street. A note on the school’s website indicated that Pepco is working to restore electricity and the school is expected to reopen tomorrow. Pepco Spokesperson […]

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 1,900 Pepco customers in the Germantown area were without power for a couple of hours on Monday afternoon. Pepco Spokesperson Bill Yingling said the cause of the outage was under investigation. At 1:15 pm. he said restoring power to customers as quickly, and as safely as possible, was the company’s first priorities. One […]

Power has been restored to approximately 1,200 Pepco customers who were without electricity earlier today following a lightning strike that brought down some wires in the Silver Spring area. Bob Hainey, a Pepco spokesperson, said the outage was first reported at 4:45 am. on Monday morning Hainey said the wires were downed in the 1500 […]

UPDATED, July 8, 2:25 p.m.-  Montgomery Couty fire official said electricity was restored at 2:45 a.m. on July 8 and emergency generator continues to operate in the 15-story building in Silver Spring. There is still no air conditioning or hot water. Fire alarms are back on, a fire official said. The building had two electrical fires in […]

The Montgomery County Recreation Department’s Administrative Office at 4010 Randolph Road has closed for the day due to the loss of electricity and phone service. All walk-in registrations will be available until 5 p.m. at the Holiday Park Senior Center in Wheaton and the Plum Gar Community Recreation Center in Germantown. Holiday Park Senior Center […]

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 […]

A power outage in Rockville impacted 1,600 Pepco customers, including several city of Rockville facilities, shortly before lunch on May 5. Marcus Beal, media relations manager for Pepco, said the outage was caused by a transformer issue in Rockville. He said Pepco received the first report at 10:40 a.m. and by 11 a.m. crews were […]

UPDATED, Sept. 23, 10:53 a.m.- A Pepco spokesman said there is an equipment failure on one of the main lines in the area and crews are headed to the scene of the outage Wednesday. ORIGINAL POST- More than 1,000 Pepco customers are without power in the Montgomery Village area Wednesday. According to the Pepco outage […]

Montgomery County fire rescue crews were called to “wires down” near North Summit Avenue and South Frederick Avenue in Gaithersburg around 8 a.m. on April 15. Fire Spokesperson Pete Piringer reported the incident on his Twitter account. According to Pepco’s online outage maps, approximately 947 customers, primarily in the Gaithersburg area, were without power. Pepco […]