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County-by-county power outages due to Hurricane Milton

An FPL spokesperson urged people to be prepared for outages as Milton hits.

By: Audra Schroeder

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As Hurricane Milton marches across Florida, the strong winds are is bringing power outages with it.

As of Thursday morning, counties in our viewing area are experiencing outages. FPL has stated it has dozens of restoration workers in the area.

Here's a look at FPL outages across South Florida and the Treasure Coast.

Palm Beach County: 56,970 of 784,000 customers served
Martin County: 16,170 of 100,760 customers served
St. Lucie County: 48,200 of 158,660 customer served
Indian River County: 27,060 of 101,320 customer served
Okeechobee County: 7,030 of 20,770 customers served

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