Power restored after earlier outage reported near LSU

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A power outage was reported near LSU’s campus on Monday, Feb. 27.

According to Entergy Louisiana’s outage map, nearly 3,500 customers reportedly did not have electricity at one point in the area between Burbank Drive and Nicholson Drive near Ben Hur Road.

However, Entergy said that power was restored for customers as of 9:15 a.m.

A spokesman for the company said the outage resulted from a dump truck pulling down utility equipment that included Entergy power lines.

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

Click here to report a typo.

Copyright 2022 WAFB. All rights reserved.