Black River outage affects more than 11,000 homes, businesses
Official: Most restored within 40 minutes
BY BRUCE MILLS bruce@theitem.com
Posted 2/22/19
If you live outside the City of Sumter and experienced a power outage Wednesday night about 9 p.m., you were not alone.
A failed piece of electrical equipment at a Black River Electric Cooperative substation caused the outage for 11,621 homes and …
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