Lakewood Mayor on Power Outage

good evening this is Mayor Ray KS I'm talk to you tonight about the blackout that's affected a large part of town for the better part of today before I start I just like to say thank you to all the volunteers that have been out there shm havam hola L with EMS the fire department police department many people have been out there all day today Manning intersections to try and make sure that they remain safe and that people can get by until power is restored I also want to acknowledge the many people who are working for jcpnl who were diligently trying to get power restored to everybody know they're working in a substation they're getting ready to start trying to do some switch overs to get power restored as much as possible I do have to say that I'm extremely frustrated and very upset at the reaction to jcp's corporate to this mess today we've virtually had no contact with anybody the few times I've reached out I was unable to get any information we can't find out what happened why it happened how many people are working in town or when it might be restored now I understand some of these things are outside of their control but a little bit more upfront information might have done a lot towards at least laying some of the concerns people had allowing them to make alternate arrangements for their evenings today so we will be taking this up with our state representatives and the BPU we need to know that the utilities that are charged with providing power to our Township are acting in our best interest and I don't think that's been happening lately so again I'm sorry for this what's happened tonight that's ruined so many people's plans on this holiday I hope us send appropriate but I hopefully everybody can still have a very happy Hanukkah enjoy the rest of the celebration and hopefully the lights will be back on soon stay safe thank you