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9,800 residents hit by power cut across Burnham-On-Sea area

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Thousands of homes across the Burnham-On-Sea area were without power on Tuesday evening, June 22nd, following a brief power cut.

Western Power Distribution told Burnham-On-Sea.com that a total of 9,800 homes in Burnham, Highbridge and Berrow suffered an outage at 5.26pm following a high voltage fault.

A spokesman for Western Power Distribution told Burnham-On-Sea.com: “Customers in the Burnham area experienced a short inturruption of power lasting between ten to fifteen seconds this evening.”

“The problem was caused by a fault with our 33,000 volt system. We automatically switched supplies to a back-up system to restore power.”

It was the latest in a series of power cuts in the Burnham area in recent months.

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