JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The intersection of Wilson Boulevard and Old Middleburg Road has been shut down for several hours Thursday after a tree fell on a power line.
JEA says initial calls came in around 3:30 a.m. when a tree knocked out two circuits, knocking out power in the surrounding Westside neighborhood. Gerri Boyce with JEA says 6,000 customers were affected by the outage.
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The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, along with three JEA crews worked overnight and by 5:25 a.m., they were able to get that number down to 2,400. By 6:10 a.m. only 15 customers were still without service.
JEA had hoped to have power fully restored by 7 a.m. Thursday, at 9 a.m. the crews were still blocking the street while working on the problem. As soon as utility crews cleared the area, police will reopen Wilson Boulevard.