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Ellicott CIty Residents to Meet With BGE Tonight

Residents of the Font Hill neighborhood who have concerns about electric service will meet with officials this evening.

In the city it’s called “shots fired,” but an early morning explosive “boom!” in Oella didn’t involve guns. 

Essentially, it was a blown fuse along a power line.

“They call it shots fired in the city because whenever it happens the police come,” said a BGE employee who arrived at 9:45 a.m. Wednesday to fix the problem. He said a tree limb likely bounced off the line in the wrong place, leading to the blow-out.

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The isolated power outage, which was fixed by late morning, came as residents in the Font Hill neighborhood prepared to meet with BGE to discuss what Cathy Eshmont calls a “dismal reliability record.”

Eshmont, a resident who said she had had reliability issues with BGE, has spearheaded “Reliability4HoCo,” a forum on Facebook where residents discuss similar frustrations. 

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Residents with concerns about power outages or reliability will be meeting with with  BGE representatives at tonight at 7:30.


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