BATON ROUGE - Power has been restored to customers in East Baton Rouge after reported morning outage.

The outage was reported around 4:30 a.m. in the area of Jones Creek and S. Sherwood Forest Blvd. According to Entergy, the outage was caused by a downed wire. Originally more than 2,000 customers were without power, by 5:45 a.m. that number had dropped to just over 200.

Power was restored around 10:30 a.m. 

TRAFFIC ALERT: Power outage affecting about 2,000 customers south of I-12. Traffic lights out along parts of Sherwood Forest, Coursey, Stumberg and others

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