Update-450 Fouke, Ark. area residents without power

Out of 45o SWEPCO customers in Fouke that spend Friday morning without power, 411 have had power restored.

"The other 39 are right next to where the wire has fallen so it will take a little bit longer but it should be on between 11 a.m. and noon," said Scott McCloud, SWEPCO spokesman. "Those 39 customers are located on East Alfred and Alfred streets, nearest to the damaged wire that has to be replaced."

The outage was caused by a tree that fell on two spans of wire.

"It's all these waterlogged trees that have been soaking up rain for a week now," McCloud said.

SWEPCO customers can sign up for alerts about outages at Swepco.com/alerts.

"It's a great tool. It will give you updates and we are certainly pushing that right now," McCloud said.

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