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Power restored in Alpharetta after transformer blew

About 2700 people were without power Sunday morning in Alpharetta and Roswell. (HENRY TAYLOR / HENRY.TAYLOR@AJC.COM)
About 2700 people were without power Sunday morning in Alpharetta and Roswell. (HENRY TAYLOR / HENRY.TAYLOR@AJC.COM)
By Ellen Eldridge
March 12, 2017

Power to area home and traffic lights has been restored after an outage Sunday morning, Georgia Power officials say.

More than 2700 people were without power about 9:30 a.m., after a transformer blew on Upper Hembree Road in Alpharetta.

Stoplights were temporarily out along Alpharetta Highway 9, Roswell police said.

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