Power outages impact thousands of customers in Washington County

HARTFORD -- The We Energies Outage Map Wednesday night, Aug. 8 showed thousands of people without power in Washington County.

As of 8 p.m., there were more than 300 outages reported in the area, impacting more than 8,000 customers.

ATC officials said one of the transmission lines near West Bend and Hartford tripped out of service. The outages lasted for about an hour.

The cause is under investigation.

You can report your power outage with We Energies HERE -- and they will send you updates.