{"id":1053119,"date":"2021-09-01T10:55:16","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T15:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1053119"},"modified":"2021-09-02T11:13:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T16:13:55","slug":"officials-vandals-cause-significant-power-outage-in-upshur-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1053119","title":{"rendered":"Officials: Vandals cause significant power outage in Upshur County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/09\/glennwood-175x98.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"98\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1053120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/09\/glennwood-175x98.jpg 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/09\/glennwood-550x309.jpg 550w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/09\/glennwood-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/09\/glennwood.jpg 871w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>UPSHUR COUNTY \u00e2\u20ac\u201c A small community in Upshur County was rendered almost completely without power after vandals caused a massive outage Wednesday morning, according to a release from a power company. Upshur County Electric Cooperative Corporation released a statement after 9:30 a.m. Wednesday saying that much of Glennwood was in the dark after \u00e2\u20ac\u0153vandals broke into the sub and caused significant damage to equipment.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d According to our news partner KETK, a company spokesman said the vandals broke into the substation and cut over 500 feet of ground wire, which eventually caused a fire. He described how dangerous the situation was and that he was surprised no one was hurt during the break-in. The UCECC says power has now been restored and the company is working with the Upshur County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Department as part of its investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPSHUR COUNTY \u00e2\u20ac\u201c A small community in Upshur County was rendered almost completely without power after vandals caused a massive outage Wednesday morning, according to a release from a power company. Upshur County Electric Cooperative Corporation released a statement after 9:30 a.m. Wednesday saying that much of Glennwood was in the dark after \u00e2\u20ac\u0153vandals broke &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1053119\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Officials: Vandals cause significant power outage in Upshur County<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1053125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/09\/glennwood-175x98.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Officials: Vandals cause significant power outage in Upshur County","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 20:30:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/09\/glennwood-175x98.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Officials: Vandals cause significant power outage in Upshur County","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1053119"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1053263,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053119\/revisions\/1053263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1053125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1053119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1053119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1053119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}