Power Restored to Residents on South End of Effingham

An equipment failure caused a loss of electric service to residents in the south part of Effingham early Friday.

Marcelline Love of Ameren Illnois said the equipment failure occurred sometime after 1am. Love said less than 500 Ameren customers were affected. She said the customers were switched to another load and service was restored about 4am.

Customers south of Effingham to Illinois 37 were also affected by the outage.