Fallen tree knocks out power to about 3,000 customers around Bay View

Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
·1 min read
1
Crews with WE Energies perform maintenance work on electric lines off of North Port Washington Road south of West Henry Clay Street in Glendale, on Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022.
Crews with WE Energies perform maintenance work on electric lines off of North Port Washington Road south of West Henry Clay Street in Glendale, on Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022.

About 3,000 customers near Milwaukee's Bay View neighborhood and the city of St. Francis were without power for nearly 3 hours after a tree fell on We Energies equipment, the utility said Tuesday afternoon.

The outage began around 12:30 p.m. and most power was restored by 3 p.m., according to the We Energies outage map.

About 2,800 of the customers without power were in the city of Milwaukee and about 240 were in St. Francis, according to the outage map.

The outage map listed "tree contact with We Energies equipment" as the cause of the outage. Additional details were not immediately available.

This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: About 3,000 customers without power in Milwaukee's Bay View