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  Power Outage Causes Disruptions Across County Friday Morning web posted February 2, 2013 EDGEFIELD – Around 9:30 am Friday a sudden power outage took out power from Edgefield, Johnston, Trenton and everywhere in between - also taking out the phones at the Edgefield County 911 Center for about 30 minutes. The emergency generators at the 911 Center restored power within seconds, but the phone lines remained down. Other offices left without power included the County Courthouse, Administration Building, Edgefield County Hospital, Parker Elementary, Jet Middle School as well as Strom Thurmond. Traffic lights were out in all three towns, Edgefield, Johnston and Trenton. The Sheriff's 911 Center acted quickly to divert 911 calls to another area of the building just before the lines came back "on line". Edgefield County Sheriff's Capt. Chris Wash said that protocol was followed during the disruption of services and no 911 calls were missed during the mishap. Wash said that the Sheriff's Office was in contact with SCE&G as to the cause of the outage but had no definitive answers at the time. Technicians from AT&T arrived at the Command Center to try to figure out why the 911 lines did not come back online when emergency generators started generating power. Radio traffic was not interrupted as the 911 center and all tower location have back-up generators to supply power in such events. At this writing it is unconfirmed what caused the massive blackout across the county. © Copyright 2012 - 2013 All material is property of
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