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Snow, ice, rain lead to wrecks, outages

A mix of ice, snow and rain that fell across Butler County Monday night into this morning created slick roads and knocked out power to dozens of residents across the county.

Steve Bicehouse, the county's director of emergency services, said the 911 center handled 34 storm-related calls from midnight to 8 a.m. Bicehouse said the call volume was “definitely more than normal,” but not unexpected given the winter weather. He said most calls were for single vehicle accidents, though none were serious, to his knowledge.

Bicehouse said he knew of four crashes that resulted in injuries as of this morning, as well as two reported transformer fires — one on Main Street in Eau Claire and another on Hopewell Avenue in Butler Township.

According to West Penn Power's online outage tracker, more than 30 people were without power as of 8 a.m. today. The largest outage was in Center Township, where 27 customers were affected, according to the company's website. Those customers were expected to have power restored by 9 a.m. Spokesman Todd Meyers said there were “a few hundred” power outages in Lawrence County, but that the bulk of the company's problems were in West Virginia.

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