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Outage affects Piper Building, commissioners meeting held outside

LOCK HAVEN – The commissioners’ voting session wasn’t the biggest news to come out of the Piper Building Thursday morning.

County workers were sent home as they arrived Thursday due to a power outage at the building located along Piper Way in Lock Haven. No other buildings were effected by the outage.

Chairman Miles Kessinger said the power had been out since Wednesday evening at about 5:50 p.m. with the backup generator working to keep the county servers up and running.

However, the generator overheated sometime Thursday morning and shut off, turning off the servers, he said.

Multiple countywide services were affected by the outage, including the CAD (computer aided dispatch) system at the Clinton County Communication Center. Kessinger added that the center could still accept calls, they just had to go back to paper to replace the CAD system.

Jury selection at the Clinton County Courthouse also went back to paper, he said.

Employees located at the Piper Building were told to work from home Thursday while PP&L were onsite attempting to fix the problem and county employees worked to fix the generator.

According to PP&L’s outage map, the cause of the outage was a tripped or blown fuse. Power was expected to be back on by 5:30 p.m.

Kessinger said crews told county officials Thursday morning they were going to check the transformer near the building. They were told when they tripped the breaker, if they heard a loud bang, it wasn’t good.

“They flipped the breaker and it sounded like a shot gun went off, flames shot up and they said ‘it’s going to be awhile,'” Kessinger said.

Due to the power outage, the commissioners meeting was held outside at the county’s pavilion and couldn’t be livestreamed.

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