Thousands impacted by Schenectady County power outage

SCHENECTADY COUNTY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- More than 20,000 National Grid customers lost power Sunday morning in Schenectady County, according to an online outage map. The outages spanned across Schenectady and Rotterdam.

A National Grid spokesperson and Schenectady Fire Chief Don Mareno told NEWS10 the outage is attributed to two incidents in Rotterdam. A fire at a BBQ restaurant on Mariaville Road between 6:00 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. that impacted a power line, and a vehicle that crashed into a power pole on Altamont Avenue, both contributed to the issues.

According to National Grid's outage map, most of the affected areas had their power restored by 9:45 a.m.