Power Restored in Fort Lee After Widespread Outage

Power in Fort Lee has been restored after the borough was hit by a major outage Wednesday morning, officials said.

Fort Lee lost power around 9 a.m. in widespread power outages reported across eastern Bergen County.  In a statement, Public Service Electric and Gas said 60,000 customers lost power after a transformer failed during "routine switching" at the Ridgefield Substation.

"This failure caused several 230,000-volt (230kV) transmission lines to trip out resulting in the shut down of the Ridgefield and Leonia Substations causing a wide-spread power outage that affected about 60,000 customers in Southern Bergen County. As of 10:11 a.m., all customers have been restored," according to the statement.

The widespread power outage knocked out electricity in much of Fort Lee, Edgewater and several surrounding towns.

Police officers in Edgewater were directing traffic because traffic signals were not working.

Public Service Electric and Gas's website had reported power outages across Bergen County, with 2,001 - 5,000 customers reported out in Fort Lee. As of 10:30 a.m., the site was reporting 1 - 500 customers out in towns across the county.

Nearby Leonia, Englewood Cliffs, Cliffside Park, Palisades Park and Teaneck were all  hit with outages, the utility company reports.