Power restored for more than 900 customers in downtown Wilmington

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Over 900 customers were without power around downtown Wilmington, according to Duke Energy Progress.

The Duke Outage map shows that only 33 customers are experiencing outages. The map showed the outage was first reported around 3:16 p.m. There were originally 960 reported outages in the downtown area.

Per a text from a Duke Energy customer, the fire in downtown Wilmington caused the outage. The text confirms that at one point 2394 customers were impacted.

Power is estimated to be restored at about 6:30 p.m.

The Duke Energy Progress outage map can be viewed here.