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Power restored for hundreds across Noblesville, Bloomington, Indianapolis

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INDIANA — Power was restored for more than 800 people each in Noblesville and Bloomington after outages across the area Friday, according to major service providers.

Duke Energy's outage map showed about 7:36 p.m. that the outage totals were down to about 11 in Noblesville and 10 in Bloomington. There were 849 total in Noblesville and 826 in Bloomington at 6:03 p.m.

The outage in Noblesville was caused by an object that came into contact with power lines in the area. It was first reported about 5:02 p.m., the company reported.

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Power outages there were mostly concentrated in an area near Cumberland Drive between East 166th Street and East 146th Street.

It wasn't clear what caused the outages in Bloomington.

There were several swathes of outages just east of Interstate-69 near West Bloomfield Road.

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There's was a portion of southeast Indianapolis that had nearly 363 outages about 4:16 p.m. AES Indiana's map showed power was restored there by 7:38 p.m.