CLEVELAND – FirstEnergy officials will hold a press conference at 11 a.m. Monday to discuss the status of recovery efforts for victims of last week’s severe storms and flooding.
You can watch the press conference below:
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FirstEnergy President Torrence Hinton is expected to speak about the remaining outages.
As of Monday morning, power has been restored to over 98% of customers. Last week’s storms caused the largest widespread power outage in 31 years – more than 470,000 customers were without power, according to FirstEnergy.
While power has been restored in most communities, many communities experienced property damage, food loss and a lack of access to essential goods.
News 5 and the Scripps Howard Fund have teamed up for a tornado and flood relief textathon benefiting the Red Cross.
Red Cross and News 5 launch textathon for tornado and flood relief
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