Amusement Park Riders Stranded Following Power Failure In Ocean City
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OCEAN CITY, N.J. (CBS) — Riders were stranded at Playland's Castaway Cove in Ocean City after a power failure on the boardwalk on Monday night.
Transformer blew near Ocean City Boardwalk, power went off and within minutes the rescue of people off of rides began, good job folks at Playland. To get people off Ferris Wheel they spun it by hand.
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The incident happened in the 1000 block of Boardwalk around 8:25 p.m.
Atlantic City Electric says about 800 customers were without power. But power was restored within 30 minutes after the outage.
AC Electric says the outage happened when a piece of equipment needed to be replaced and the cause of the incident is under evaluation.
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