Woods Official Questions Wednesday's Power Outage

Grosse Pointe Woods City Administrator Al Fincham said Wednesday that he questions why one downed power line was enough to bring down the entire grid north and east of Mack and Vernier. It is among the many questions he's posing to DTE.

Grosse Pointe Woods City Administrator Al Fincham said his phone began ringing within minutes of the power outage northeast of Mack and Vernier Wednesday. He immediately touched base with DTE's regional reprentative. News of the power outage arrived to DTE officials as they were meeting about an upcoming meeting planned for residents, business owners and city officials to provide information about what happened earlier this summer when the area--plagued for years by lengthy outages--lost power for a weekend during dangeroulsy high temperatures, Fincham said. DTE officials were responsive and in regular contact with Grosse Pointe Woods officials Wednesday, Fincham said, while awaiting the return call to say power had been restored. That …

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