Power outage affecting Carthage,Jasper, and Duenweg

UPDATE: Power has now been restored.

JASPER, Mo. — Saturday morning the Jasper Police Dept state in a release of information to citizens:

“Those of you without power please call Empire at 1-800-206-2300 and report your address with outage. Empire has crews working on it now with over 700 people effected. The outage is due to a distribution breaker.”

Click to view the active map on the Liberty/Empire website.

“Outage Update: we are currently experiencing an outage in Jasper, Missouri, impacting approximately 700 customers. Crews are on scene and working to safely restore power. Visit our website to view our outage map and for outage updates.” — LIBERTY UTILITIES CENTRAL