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More than 3,200 employees from Mon Power, Potomac Edison, West Penn Power, Ohio Edison and other FirstEnergy utilities, assisted by crews from outside contractors and utilities, are continuing their around-the-clock efforts to restore service to utility customers after the June 30 severe thunderstorms that left 566,000 customers without electricity in West Virginia, Maryland, western Pennsylvania and central Ohio.

FirstEnergy utilities have restored service to more than 314,000 of those customers, according to a news release from the company.

Personnel from FirstEnergy's other utilities, Toledo Edison, The Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company, Metropolitan Edison, Pennsylvania Power Company, Pennsylvania Electric Company and Jersey Central Power & Light, have been deployed in the hardest-hit areas.

About 1,000 contractors and outside utility crew members from Michigan, Florida, New York and Kentucky also will be assisting with the restoration process.

According to FirstEnergy, West Virginia was the hardest-hit area, with severe wind damage reported to the company's transmission lines. Helicopters are being used to inspect the more than 50 transmission lines that have been impacted.

Mon Power estimates that the majority of affected customers in the Weirton area will be restored at about midnight Saturday, and customers in the Morgantown area should be restored by about midnight Monday.

The estimated restoration times for other areas are later this week.

Overall, about 91,000 of the 280,000 affected customers in West Virginia have had their electricity restored, according to FirstEnergy.