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UPDATE for Ohio AEP customers

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  • Family escapes fire in East Bank

    Tuesday, May 21 2013 12:18 PM EDT2013-05-21 16:18:28 GMT
    Three people were inside this burning home but managed to get out safely.
    Firefighters are battling a massive fire in East Bank in Kanawha County. A house on Walnut Street went up in flames around 5:15 a.m. Firefighters said two people were home at the time but managed to
    Three escape massive fire in a home on Walnut Street in Kanawha County

By 6 p.m. July 1, AEP Ohio had restored power to more than 250,000 of the 660,000 customers affected by the catastrophic storms that moved through the state June 29.

A line of new storms has resulted in 20,000 additional customer outages this evening.

Approximately 435,000 customers remain without power at 9 p.m. tonight.

At the peak of the storm on June 29, approximately 45 percent of AEP Ohio customers were without power.