Animal contact is cause of outage

More than 4,000 Jersey Central Power & Light (JCP&L) customers lost power on the evening of April 15 after animal contact with equipment occurred at the Millhurst substation in Manalapan.

JCP&L customers in Englishtown, Freehold, Manalapan and Millstone Township were affected by the power outage, JCP&L spokesman Ron Morano said.

Morano reported that 4,341 customers lost power at 10:36 p.m. Power was restored shortly after 11 p.m.